Intermediality and Transmedial Thanatography in Jacobo Fernández Serrano's Lois Pereiro: Breve encontro

Abstract

In 2011, the poet Lois Pereiro (1958–1996) was honoured at the annual Día das Letras Galegas (Galician Literature Day). The Galician publishing industry released a plethora of texts about Pereiro, including Jacobo Fernández Serrano's comics biography Lois Pereiro: Breve encontro. This article examines the comic as an intermedial text that captures the influence of literature, films, music and comics in Pereiro's own writing. Furthermore, it is analysed as part of a transmedial network, together with other biographies published around the Día das Letras. These texts address the role played by death in the poet's life and work (as he died at an early age of rapeseed oil poisoning and AIDS), and they can therefore be understood as ‘thanatographies’ as much as life writing.