Dos pilares da criação: as dimensões narrativas e simbólicas na obra Incal

Abstract

This research seeks to analyze the narrative and symbolic dimensions that make up the work Incal (1980 - 88), by Jodorowsky and Moebius, including their correspondence with Dune (1965), by Frank Herbert, a book with which the work maintains a relationship of derivation . Investigating the constitution of Jodorowsky's cult comic, first in isolation in an approach that covers form and content, and then inserting into this logic the notion of transmutation (derivation and transformation of one idea into another), we can have a clear dimension of what the creative process is in such a unique framework, as was the conception of this science fiction work. Based on a discussion about language, narrative, imaginary, myth, archetype and other elements mobilized in Incal, the research seeks to investigate, through the theoretical-methodological perspective of Depth Hermeneutics, how the work articulates these elements within the singular logic of a work that sustains itself, and also the transmutation of the idea ofDuna for the creation process of Incal. The confluence of ideas in the work leads to the following question: how does the birth of novelty occur starting from an idea that is not created from emptiness, but from a process of derivation? It concludes, making use of narrative and symbolic references to explain that Dune was a prism for Jodorowsky, from which the Chilean author could discover new spaces within himself, think a new genre. Incal emerges as an authentic thing when reflecting on Jodorowsky, when Jodorowsky came across Dune, and found himself in it. The author said that he put in his comic everything he had created anew for his adaptation of Dune, Incal remains, therefore, like Jodorowsky's original image under the prism of another author, the decomposition of a spectrum into new colors.