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Instead, the graphic novel is characterised by its political content and expressionist aesthetics, based on the hyperbolic characterisation of human bodies. Perramus, while glorifying Borges as the hero of the story, manipulates Borges’ immanentism. The treatment of the Argentinean writer as a character and the ways in which Sasturain’s script transforms his public image and his ideas about literature and politics are studied.

One of the findings of the work is the inclusion of Jorge Luis Borges as one of its protagonists.

Perramus integrates graphic experimentation with the political content of its stories, in this case linked to a left-wing Latin Americanist programme. In it, an anonymous character known by the nickname of Per)ramus has various adventures in a city, Santa María, dominated by the sinister regime of the Mariscals. Abstract: The graphic novel Perramus, published between 19, with a script by Juan Sasturain and drawings by Alberto Breccia, is a canonical work in its genre in Latin America and one of the main texts that dealt with the subject of the military dictatorship in Argentina in the 1980s.

Perramus by Juan Sasturain