A presente dissertação visa estudar os processos imbricados no percurso da atividade leitora diante da tessitura das produções artísticas contemporâneas. Para isso, primeiramente apresentaremos aspectos históricos e sociais relacionados às transformações ocorridas no mundo da linguagem e seus suportes, a fim de que possamos conceber a leitura como uma prática cultural que, há tempos, extrapola os limites do verbal. Em seguida, aprofundaremos o estudo compreendendo a leitura em seu caráter perceptivo e cognitivo, tomando como fio condutor o sentido humano da visão e observando como, a partir deste último, a leitura concretiza-se em uma labiríntica ação de olhar, em um complexo movimento interno, mental e cognitivo de busca e produção de sentidos. Procuraremos observar ainda a leitura enquanto atividade individual e única, no que se refere a cada leitura e cada leitor, apresentando reflexões sobre a construção do olhar, ou seja, do ponto de vista de que lança mão o leitor para a leitura dos textos, dos seres, enfim, do mundo que o rodeia. Por fim, analisaremos o filme O Labirinto do Fauno (2006), de Guillermo Del Toro, focalizando as relações estabelecidas entre literatura e cinema e demonstrando como os recursos próprios do cinema, bem como sua inter-relação de códigos e linguagens, concorrem para a construção de sentidos. Concomitantemente, a análise evidenciará desafios impostos ao leitor relacionados às linguagens empregadas mas que as extrapolam. Identificando as especificidades de cada forma narrativa (literária e cinematográfica) e seu entrelaçamento, observaremos em que medida a compreensão ampla do filme requer por parte do leitor a reconstrução das relações da obra com a sociedade e com outros textos, épocas, lugares e discursos; o desvendamento do texto enquanto forma esteticamente elaborada; e a procura de uma possível interpretação que conceba a obra como um objeto de simbolização do mundo. Assim, por meio da análise, buscaremos identificar modos que parecem marcar o percurso da atividade leitora e o lugar do leitor tendo em vista as formas expressivas de nossa atualidade. / This dissertation aims to study the processes imbricated in the course of the reading activity before the tessitura of contemporary artistic productions. For such, we will firstly present historical and social aspects related to the changes in the world of language and its supports, so that we are able to conceive reading as a cultural practice that, for a long time, has been extrapolating the limits of the verbal. Then, we will perform a profound study comprehending reading in its perceptive and cognitive nature, taking as guiding principle the human sense of vision and observing how, from the latter, the reading manifests itself in a labyrinthine action of looking, in a complex internal, mental and cognitive movement of search and production of senses. We will seek to further observe reading as a peculiar and unique activity, with respect to each reading and each reader, presenting reflections on the construction of the look, that is, from the point of view that the reader makes use of to read texts, the beings, in short, the world around him. Finally, we will analyze the film Pan\'s Labyrinth (2006), by Guillermo Del Toro, focusing on the relations established between literature and cinema and showing how the own cinema resources, as well as their inter-relationship of codes and languages, lead to construction of senses. Concomitantly, the analysis will show the challenges to the reader related to the languages employed, but that go beyond them. Identifying the specificities of each narrative form (literary and cinematographic) and its interlacement, we will observe to what extent the ample understanding of the film requires, by the reader, the reconstruction of the work relations with society and with other texts, times, places and speeches; the unveiling of the text as aesthetically developed form; and the search for a possible interpretation that sees the work as an object symbolizing the world. Thus, through analysis, we will seek to identify ways that seem to mark the course of the reading activity and the readers place considering the expressive forms of our present.

A presente dissertação visa estudar os processos imbricados no percurso da atividade leitora diante da tessitura das produções artísticas contemporâneas. Para isso, primeiramente apresentaremos aspectos históricos e sociais relacionados às transformações ocorridas no mundo da linguagem e seus suportes, a fim de que possamos conceber a leitura como uma prática cultural que, há tempos, extrapola os limites do verbal. Em seguida, aprofundaremos o estudo compreendendo a leitura em seu caráter perceptivo e cognitivo, tomando como fio condutor o sentido humano da visão e observando como, a partir deste último, a leitura concretiza-se em uma labiríntica ação de olhar, em um complexo movimento interno, mental e cognitivo de busca e produção de sentidos. Procuraremos observar ainda a leitura enquanto atividade individual e única, no que se refere a cada leitura e cada leitor, apresentando reflexões sobre a construção do olhar, ou seja, do ponto de vista de que lança mão o leitor para a leitura dos textos, dos seres, enfim, do mundo que o rodeia. Por fim, analisaremos o filme O Labirinto do Fauno (2006), de Guillermo Del Toro, focalizando as relações estabelecidas entre literatura e cinema e demonstrando como os recursos próprios do cinema, bem como sua inter-relação de códigos e linguagens, concorrem para a construção de sentidos. Concomitantemente, a análise evidenciará desafios impostos ao leitor relacionados às linguagens empregadas mas que as extrapolam. Identificando as especificidades de cada forma narrativa (literária e cinematográfica) e seu entrelaçamento, observaremos em que medida a compreensão ampla do filme requer por parte do leitor a reconstrução das relações da obra com a sociedade e com outros textos, épocas, lugares e discursos; o desvendamento do texto enquanto forma esteticamente elaborada; e a procura de uma possível interpretação que conceba a obra como um objeto de simbolização do mundo. Assim, por meio da análise, buscaremos identificar modos que parecem marcar o percurso da atividade leitora e o lugar do leitor tendo em vista as formas expressivas de nossa atualidade. / This dissertation aims to study the processes imbricated in the course of the reading activity before the tessitura of contemporary artistic productions. For such, we will firstly present historical and social aspects related to the changes in the world of language and its supports, so that we are able to conceive reading as a cultural practice that, for a long time, has been extrapolating the limits of the verbal. Then, we will perform a profound study comprehending reading in its perceptive and cognitive nature, taking as guiding principle the human sense of vision and observing how, from the latter, the reading manifests itself in a labyrinthine action of looking, in a complex internal, mental and cognitive movement of search and production of senses. We will seek to further observe reading as a peculiar and unique activity, with respect to each reading and each reader, presenting reflections on the construction of the look, that is, from the point of view that the reader makes use of to read texts, the beings, in short, the world around him. Finally, we will analyze the film Pan\'s Labyrinth (2006), by Guillermo Del Toro, focusing on the relations established between literature and cinema and showing how the own cinema resources, as well as their inter-relationship of codes and languages, lead to construction of senses. Concomitantly, the analysis will show the challenges to the reader related to the languages employed, but that go beyond them. Identifying the specificities of each narrative form (literary and cinematographic) and its interlacement, we will observe to what extent the ample understanding of the film requires, by the reader, the reconstruction of the work relations with society and with other texts, times, places and speeches; the unveiling of the text as aesthetically developed form; and the search for a possible interpretation that sees the work as an object symbolizing the world. Thus, through analysis, we will seek to identify ways that seem to mark the course of the reading activity and the readers place considering the expressive forms of our present.

(In Spanish) The Spanish Civil war isn't over in the hearts and minds of the people of Spain; rather, it is still being fought in the ideological realm of historical memory. Originally explored in literature and film, the theme of historical memory has not only become more visible and more explicit, but has taken the leap from art and literature into the political realm to become one of Spain's most pressing political issues.

This dissertation investigates the literary and cinematic use of the child’s perspective to present the Mexican Revolution and the Spanish Civil War and their aftermath in several Mexican, Spanish, and international (Mexican-Spanish collaborative) narratives of the 20th and early 21st Centuries written by adult authors and filmmakers, and targeted for adult audiences. The Mexican narratives are Cartucho and Las manos de mamá by Nellie Campobello, Balún Canán by Rosario Castellanos, and Bandidos, a film by Luis Estrada; selected Spanish works are El espíritu de la colmena by Víctor Erice, Cría cuervos by Carlos Saura, and El sur by Adelaida García Morales; and both international works are films by Guillermo del Toro, El espinazo del diablo and El laberinto del fauno. I attempt to determine the textual or cinematic function of the child as first person (homodiegetic) narrative viewer in these works, and I study the different ways in which this child’s point of view is constructed in order to depict the overwhelming tragedy of war. I note patterns and diversities in subject matter presented by the narrative voice, and observe the characteristics of the child narrative viewer’s world and priorities (as presented by the authors and filmmakers), paying careful attention to how each perceives and understands his or her country’s violent upheaval and its aftermath. The theoretical framework of this investigation draws mainly from trauma theory, Gothic studies, and the tradition of the fairy tale. I illustrate how within the war narrative in addition to the author’s/filmmaker’s desire to recreate the sentiment that a child would evoke in adult readers and viewers, the child narrative viewer is employed for three main reasons: to play upon or against preexisting notions of the child’s innocence; to represent (possibly subversively) the nation; and as therapeutic means of returning to a paradise lost or creating a paradise never experienced. / text