A redimensão textual da obra Pé de Pilão, de Mário Quintana: inter-relação entre edição, palavra e ilustrações

Abstract

Brazilian children's and youth literature, since 1970, has undergone quite significant changes, especially when we consider the verbal and visual aspects that make up the textuality in illustrated books. Considering this context, this dissertation proposes to analyze the textual redimension around the trajectory of the narrative poem Pé de pilão, by Mario Quintana, from four editorial projects: the first, launched by Garatuja (1975) with illustrations by Edgar Koetz; the second, published by L&PM (1980), features the same graphic design as the previous publisher; the third, published by Ática (1997) with illustrations by Gonzalo Cárcamo; the fourth, published by Companhia das Letras (2018) with illustrations by Rosinha Campos; and the fifth, refers to the adaptation of the work to the comics, which was made by Levitan (1986). The relationship between word, image and edition in each of these books is presented as readings and re-readings, which compose their totality in order to dimension the literary text, as there are multiple resources operating in the ways in which these objects are presented to the public. So, if each edition is presented with a variety of formats, typography, colors, sizes, illustrations, just to name a few elements that make up the “objectuality” of the book, the textual redimension of the narrative under analysis will become more evident from the comparison between the five editions for the same literary text, even more so because the sum of this set of books is understood as the work Pé de pilão. As the first editorial project to be analyzed was dated from 1975, the research takes place from that period to the present, which is very significant for the studies of children's and youth literature, when considering a classic work aimed at this audience and which was part of the education of many. Giving due importance to the trajectory covered by the narrative poem, the analysis of the editions consisted of: a) Describing the global processes of the work's redimension; b) Analyze the elements that contribute to the textual redimension according to the relationship between the written text, the illustrations and the graphic design of the editorial proposals; c) Indicate the narrative elements that contribute to the redimension of the work. The methodological course of the research was developed through the gathering of bibliographic material located in the field of studies on illustrated books for children and young people, editing and analysis of visual arts, more specifically, the research of Ana M. Ramos (2007, 2010) , Linden (2011), Powers (2008), Nikolajeva and Scott (2011), Dondis (2015), Araújo (2008) and Munari (2018) and others. All these studies were necessary for the interpretation of the pre-textual, textual and post-textual elements of the objects of analysis and for the understanding of the resizing through which the narrative poem passed.