Audiolivros e edição: projeto acústico-editorial

Abstract

This research aims at identifying the editorial elements involved in the material composition of digital Brazilian audiobooksbased on the concept of acoustic-editorial project", proposed as a meansto deal with the production process of sound literary works, also including the set of human and non-human agencies. Therefore, undertaking a bibliographical review, we point out different concepts of "audiobook", considered here as a media on its own and not as a secondary format derived from the printed book. Through a documentary research, we provide data concerning the audiobook market not only in Brazil but also abroad as a manner of contextualize the present thesis as well as the editorial product itself.As fieldwork, using methods as the observation of record sessions and interview, two audiobook publishers were studied, one from Brazil and the other from England, allowing us to produce two schemes with their respective production flowcharts. Moreover, from the description of eight audiobooks, editions of novelswritten by Brazilian authors and produced by national editors, we present and discuss the elements of acoustic-editorial project such as the paratexts, the narrator performances, the sound effects, the reading devices, the modifications on the verbal content and the mistakes.At the end, we deal with the editorial choices made and their implications for discussing sound textualities, which enable us to comprehend what we have called acoustic-editorial project