CONVERGENT BODIES. FROM LITERATURE TO GRAPHIC NARRATIVE IN CUERPOS DEL DELITO (2017) BY ANTONIO ALTARRIBA AND SERGIO GARCÍA SÁNCHEZ

Abstract

The trend towards experimentalism in contemporary literature is a recurrent one that has its analogy in the narrative and expressive codes of graphic narrative. This proposal analyses the book Cuerpos del delito: por el humo se sabe dónde está el fuego (2017), with texts and script by Antonio Altarriba and illustrations and graphic design by Sergio García Sánchez. Through the study of a hybrid artefact with a dual nature, literary and graphic, which allows us to explore the possibilities offered
by the crossing of languages, narrative forms and genuine aesthetics. Ethics is also very present in these illustrated stories, expanded in a poster where the hybridisation of the textual and the graphic facilitates the narration and the orientation of the plots as a mosaic of narratives. The metaphor of a bodily silhouette is literally materialised in a mode of use to access the stories and the fictional universe of Altarriba and García Sánchez.