This chapter examines the inscription of unnatural bodies in the novels of Gabriel García Márquez and Sony Labou Tansi in order to understand the apocalyptic visions that underlie the works. Their novels abound in atavistic images of the human body and human-animal behaviours that at once portray the persistence of puerile fantasies in adults, as well as the transcendental traits of larger-than-life bodies. How can one explain the constant figuration of the bestial in the novelistic worlds of Labou Tansi and García Márquez? Artistically, the blurring of human and bestial boundaries serves as a defamiliarising element in the narratives. They underline the surreptitious resurgence of the irrational, the anecdotal, and the unknown in everyday life. In a broader sense, it is an assault on realist literature and the Cartesian claim of an attainable objective world. This perspective subverts modernist discourses of progress and underlines the abject and solitary nature of the human condition.