Frame the Image, Expand the Reading: Anatomia do Paraíso and the Windows By Beatriz Bracher

Abstract

The novel Anatomia do Paraíso (2015), by Beatriz Bracher, is the literary object chosen as the material to be analyzed so that we can point out some recurring narrative procedures in contemporary Brazilian literature. These procedures will be highlighted based on a dialogue between literature and cinema. We consider that the novel rehearses a reading scene, in which two readers are placed in front of the same image, or even frame: the windows of their rooms. We propose a cutting exercise that we will divide into two sequences of images (internal to the novel itself) as an interpretative procedure. With this, let's think about how these scenes enable a theoretical elaboration of the relationship between image and reader within the literary object itself.