Autoportrait de Paris avec Chat de Dany Laferrière: literatura em imagens.
Autoportrait de Paris avec Chat by Dany Laferrière: literature in images.
. PALAVRAS-CHAVE EM INGLÊS:
D Dany Laferrière, Haitian Québécois Literature, Roman Déssiné, Magic Realism.
The current paper aims at analysing the Roman Déssiné in the work Autoportrait de Paris avec Chat (2018) by Dany Laferrière, in view of the images present in the aforementioned narrative. This fictional production, published in 2018, is the first example of the new genre, created by the Immortel de L’Académie Française author. At first glance, the audience might confuse the book for a children’s sketchbook. However, the narrative is more than that. We find three main characters in it: a famous writer about to receive the immortality distinction for his books, the city of Paris, and the Cat, with a burlesque profile in a Dandy style, who knows every cultural corner of the world’s most visited French capital. Thus, we are immersed in a museum of images and words, in which a personal Paris emerges, populated by the most famous artists from different aesthetic fields and from different periods. Dany Laferrière’s Roman Déssiné reminds us of several avant-garde compositions, whether in image or in writing. Considering these characteristics of the work, we work with the hypothesis that the Roman Déssiné is a result of the dialogues between literature and image, which took place both during the 20th Century’s Modernity, and in the internal circuit of the set of Dany Laferrière’s works. We believe that the author preserves an aesthetic tradition and, at the same time, implements innovations as he explores the levels of pictoriality (LOUVEL, 2016a; LOUVEL, 2016b) in his works. For us, Autoportrait de Paris avec Chat might be considered an aesthetic landmark n which we see the emergence, for the first time, of an imagery concretism in the novel. Our preliminary results confirm that, through parodistic drawings and caricatures, the Haitian-Québécois author illustrated the references that constantly appear in his other productions, presenting, this time with his own hand, the painters and the works that marked his route in some way.