Artigo:

Silence contributes to narratives in picturebooks? This study aims to investigate possible contributions of silence to build narratives in contemporary picturebooks. The analysis of the selected books, in which it is possible to observe an important presence of silence intertwining narratives, either by what is left blank or in the act of turning pages, and in doing so, making evident elements that enrich reading through a deeper understanding of the language itself. This study is divided into two main sections, which are intrinsically connected: a glossary of picturebook terms, defining its formal, graphic, syntactic and material elements, potentializing the comprehension of its grammar; and the analysis of what is blank and the turn of the page in the corpus, in which these narrative elements are set in an specific manner and is fundamental to the comprehension of such language. The glossary is a result of the systematization of the bibliographic review, including critical analysis of formal aspects and graphic and material elements of the corpus, with focus on silence, represented specifically on what is blank and in the act of turning pages, having as a theoretical benchmark the phenomenology, the literary critics, and visual language sintaxis. Interviews with authors of the works that are being analysed were conducted. They are: Lúcia Hiratsuka, Carolina Moreyra e Odilon Moraes, Albertine and Sebastián Camargo Santana. The corpus is composed by: O caminhão and A visita, de Lúcia Hiratsuka; Lá e aqui and Lulu e o urso, de Carolina Moreyra e Odilon Moraes; Linea 135, de Germano Zullo e Albertine; Meu tio chega amanhã, de Sebastián Camargo Santana.