O caleidoscópio narrativo: reflexões sobre literatura, existência e narrativa em Sandman - fim dos mundos

Abstract

This study aims to investigate the occurrence of elements that characterize the kaleidoscopic condition in graphic narratives, or comic books, striving for clues that relate to the narrative fields and literature. To this end, we selected as our object of study the series of comic Sandman (1988), in focusing on stories that were gathered in the eighth volume, entitled End of the Worlds (2005), which make up the arc of the same name stories. We conducted a literature review and qualitative survey, in which we seek concepts and ideas that allow us to build a theoretical framework with which nortearíamos our investigations. In particular we focus on the effort to explore how is the practice of stories within stories or narratives abyss, seeking to understand how it leads the reader to a different experience. To this end, our survey included works of Bakhtin (2000), Candido (2006), Dallenbach (1989), Eagleton (2005, 2006), Foucault (2001), Perrone-Moisés (1990, 1998) and Propp (2006) which gave us the foundation related to literature, while Cirne (1977, 1990, 2000), Eco (2008), Eisner (2010, 2013), Garcia (2012) and McCloud (2004.2006) provide the knowledge needed to understand the resources that make up a comic book. In the end, these two theoretical matrices will be compared in an analysis of each chapter that makes up the corpus.