Através da imagem: a fotografia como recurso narrativo em o livro das emoções e o lar da srta. Peregrine para crianças peculiares

Abstract

This research aims to develop an analytical and comparative study of the photography as a narrative resource for the composition of the works The book of emotions (2008), by the Brazilian writer Joao Almino (1950-), and Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (2016), by the American writer and film-maker Ransom Riggs (1979- ). In the first, Almino narrates the trajectory of the blind photographer who edits a photographic day-book – entitled “The book of emotions” - with photos that represent many characters, building diversified pictures for the reader’s perception without concretely framing the photo as object, in contrast with Riggs’s novel which associates photo and narrative to deal with the story about a boy that follows clues that conduct him to an abandoned orphanage, where he knows children with peculiar “gifts” led by Srta. Peregrine, the director.  Both the novels are similar in the textual structure justified by the use of the photographic method. Therefore, it is intended to observe how each writer used the photo in the novel. It will be considered the contributions of critics like Brizuela (2014), Garramuño (2014), among others which discuss about the configuration’s means of literary text, as well as an analysis of the photo’s foundations, beyond the limits and forms that the literature takes on its definition.

KEYWORDS: Art; contemporaneity; photography; literature.