This book presents a close reading of four texts by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Cl zio, guided by Gilles Deleuze's concept of metamorphosis, becoming-animal. In his critique of anthropocentrism and Western reason, Le Cl zio dismantles the opposition between mind and matter, language and life, developing Henri Bergson's notion of the living, le vivant. A philosophical and ecological role is accorded poetic, sensorial expression, which is the means of...