O livro ilustrado sob diferentes olhares: uma análise verbo-visual e de recepção de A visita de Antje Damm

Abstract

This study focuses on the materiality of the picturebook The Visit, by Antje Damm, from two analytical perspectives: from the verbal-visual and the reception of the work among Brazilian readers of different ages, based on reviews written by users of Skoob, a Brazilian social network addressed exclusively to books. The verbo-visual analysis points out that the visual text is not merely descriptive. On the contrary, visuality offers to the reader some powerful keys for reflection, sometimes allowing the images to lead the production of meanings. The reception analysis shows that readers notice and highlight the importance and the quality of visuality in the construction of such narrative, as well as expressing this book's ability to evoke emotions of different orders. Readers also point out the power of the work in dialoguing with different age groups, not restricted to the child audience, to whom it was originally intended. The Visit is a picturebook that requires readers of all ages to have a sensitive and competent look, with a special openness to the potential of visuality.