Cotidiano, tempo e espaço em "Margeando o Rio" de Jiro Taniguchi

Abstract

The research study the relationships between the narrative categories of time and space related to everyday life in comics. Our object to achieve this goal is chapter 8 under the title “Margeando o Rio” present in the manga The Walking Man (2017), by mangaka Jiro Taniguchi. The relationship between time, space and daily life takes place through the main character and his relationship with the landscape and city of Tokyo. As a theoretical foundation, we will seek the concept of ordinary man in the work of Certeau (2021) and the everyday in comics with Schneider (2019). The relationship between time and space is supported by Bakhtin's (2018) narrative studies with his study on the chronotope and Genette (2017) with his concepts of frequency and speed, and the dialogue with Groensteen (2015) and his study on the frame and the gutter between frames as a space for the passage of time and in the article by Lucas (2016) on the use of diegetic and graphic space. In the end, we found that the relationship between the construction of time, space and everyday life occurs through a dilation (or suspension) of time and an imprecision of space, characteristics that we fit within the perspective of a contemporary artistic work