Abstract
The article proposes a new reading of Tournier's Vendredi ou les limbes du Pacifique with the intent to combine Postcolonial and Animal Studies, beyond the common emphasis on the notion of victim. After having demonstrated that during the "administrated island", Robinson imposes an order based on the correlation among capitalism, colonialism and Oedipal sexuality, as if humanity in its universality could be reduced to the features of Western societies, I will focus on the new relation with alterity (both human and non human) suggested by the novel: a kind of intersubjectivity based on the play, which is a practice that does not presuppose the knowledge of the other and exceeds the traditional categorical antithesis, such as truth/falsity, good/evil, wisdom/madness, nature/culture.