El intervalo alucinatorio en las aventuras de Corto Maltés, de Hugo Pratt: la figuración de la palabra y la discontinuidad visual=The hallucinatory interval in Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese: the figuration of the word and the visual discontinuity

Abstract

The hallucinatory interval in Hugo Pratt’s Corto Maltese: the figuration of the word and the visual discontinuity. With his character Corto Maltese, the Venetian cartoonist Hugo Pratt reinvented the adventure for the twentieth century. In the work of Pratt, different landscapes and spaces are rediscovered through previous literary works. The present article approaches the literary construction of the different albums of Corto Maltese using the concept of Menippean satire. Moreover, each of the stories of Corto Maltese raises the tension between the accumulation of literary wisdom and historical knowledge, and a constant need to escape. In the form of dreams, hallucinations or suspensions of the story, there are always moments when the plot stops and the story tends toward graphic and narrative abstraction. As formulated by art theorist Carl Einstein, the notion hallucinatory interval allows studying these rhythmical instants that produce a very special form of participation of the reader based on a direct and almost haptic experience.