Kreatiewe remediasie van Pynstiller deur Fanie Viljoen: van kortverhaal na grafiese verhaal
Abstract
In
the Transgressions and boundaries of the page project, artists and writers were invited to create
artist’s books and thereby to transcend the possibilities of the codex form of the book. This
article discusses one of the projects, namely the creative remediation by Fanie Viljoen of his
own short story (word), Pynstiller [‘Painkiller’], which deals with the phenomenon of selfmutilation
among teenagers, into a graphic novel (word and image). The creative process
and product are investigated according to the concepts of media, narratology, picture book
and comic book theory. With reference to the two versions of the text, it is indicated how the
narrative and theme of the short story are emphasised or extended in the graphic version,
and particularly how access to the experienced world of the first-person narrator has been
broadened. It appears that the visual narrative elements and the interaction between word
and image together contribute towards the narrative, characterisation, portrayal of the
theme and the subsequent effect on the reader-viewer. Finally, Fanie Viljoen’s remediation
of Pynstiller confirms the premise that the artist’s book is an ideal medium to challenge and
transcend boundaries
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