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Flicts
In 1969, writer and illustrator Ziraldo writes, as invited by
Expressão Cultural publishing house, the history of Flicts.
This work is differentiated by modern, daring graphic design,
and thus becomes a milestone for children’s literature in
Brazil. Flicts tells the story of a color that could not find its
place on earth. In the midst of solitude, the character decides
to flee and ends up on the moon, where it finds a satellite
of its own color. The story has just been put into a Japanese
version by the Ofusha publishers.
Vânia Maria Resende, an educator holding a São Paulo
University PhD degree on Comparative Studies of Literatures
in the Portuguese Language, has underlined that Ziraldo’s
book release was an important moment in children’s and
youth literature in the country as it brought together
elements that were not limited to the classical notion of
literature but rather included multiple visual contexts, in
addition to the linguistic sense. “Flicts is the result of a
new concept of book/literature, where the visual aspect is
highlighted and new avenues are open to readers. This is what
we classify as simultaneist literature,” Vânia Maria explains.
In the wake of Flicts, a more professional view of illustrators
came into existence and publishers started to take an interest
in books as works of art. “To make it to the market, Flicts
relied on the support from a revolutionary publisher who
decided to launch a book of exceptional visual and graphic
quality,” she said. Vânia also underlined the importance of
the verbal-graphic-visual style that was started with that book:
“The breadth of Ziraldo’s language mixes visual and verbal
aspects and takes on a universal symbolic dimension which
allows for different reading perspectives. Ziraldo draws as he
writes and writes as he draws.”
Elements of transformation and overcoming can be found in
there that will facilitate reading the social context in which
the book was written: “During the military dictatorship, Flicts
would have represented the struggle between luminosity and
obscurantism. The special color fought to be relieved from
the oppression by the other colors,” she analyses.
Flicts
Melhoramentos.
ISBN 9788506059241
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Melhoramentos.
ISBN 9788506055106
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Melhoramentos.
ISBN 9788506053942