Hybrid Novel: a articulação entre palavra e imagem no romance Luna Clara & Apolo Onze, de Adriana Falcão

Abstract

This dissertation aims to investigate the construction of the hybrid narrative, also called hybrid novel, from the reading of Luna Clara & Apolo Onze (2002), by Adriana Falcão with illustrations by José Carlos Lollo. It aims to examine how, in the hybrid narrative, there is the conjunction of two languages: the verbal and the visual, without the privilege of one of them, requiring a new attitude not only of the author and the illustrator — who begin to divide the co-authoring of the work — but also of the reader and the mediator. Even with a considerable range of authors and works being produced in the literary market, critical studies concerning youth literature are still scarce, which justifies our study, which becomes more relevant when proposing the analysis of the confluence of verbal and visual language, and this aspect is still little discussed in Brazilian criticism. Based on the bibliographic research and assuming the hypothetical-deductive method, the present study is organized in three chapters. In the first one, we present the route that has been traced by contemporary youth literature in order to point out the thematic and structural innovations observed in the novels. In the second chapter, we deal with the hybrid novel concept and we engage the analysis of the novel Luna Clara & Apolo Onze, proposing the joint reading of the verbal and visual text, in order to show how the simultaneous reading of the different languages promotes different and enriching possibilities of meaning. Finally, in the third chapter, we show the effects of meaning generated by the articulation between word and image, and investigate the four pillars involved in the construction of the novel: the writer, the illustrator, the reader and the mediator. Among the theoretical basis used are the reflections of Zöe Sadokierski, Eve Tandoi, Teresa Colomer, Maria Nikolajeva and Carole Scott and Vitor Manuel de Aguiar e Silva