A personagem Morte em histórias em quadrinhos: intertextos entre Sandman e as intermitências da Morte

Abstract

This paper intends to relate the concepts of intertextuality by Kristeva (1976), adaptation by Hutcheon (2013) and symbol by Pierce (2005) around the personification and unusual figure of Death in the comic adaptation of the novel Death with Interruptions(2005) by José Saramago and the comic Death(2018) by Neil Gaiman. We seek a retrospective of the representation of death in Western culture and how its present is linked to the fantastic narratives by Todorov (1975) and unusual Zinani (2020) in literatureand sequential art. To understand the creation of the character, we turn our attention to the character in Brecht and Jungian archetypes. In the end, we present the similarities between the two comics, mainly relating human feelings to two figures of Death