 Narrating Ocean Lives: Challenges and Dilemmas of Zoopoetic Writing 
This article is based on the ongoing writing of a novel. Set on the coastline of Brittany, France, the book explores the ocean as a living environment. While I focus primarily on humans, oceanographers and divers, I intend to give other-than-human beings an essential role. Delving into the examples of northern gannets, grey seals and planktonic species, I seek to understand what determines nonhumans’ representation as characters in the narrative, actants of ecosystems or presences in the chosen environment. As we question whether to respect or transcend the limits of our knowledge of animals, we will see that zoopoetics teaches us as much about the structuring of our own mind and about what we expect from a story as about animal lives themselves.