Abstract
This article analyzes the relationship between illustration and narrative in the Chilean magazines Zig-Zag and Lecturas, focusing on the story “El abuelo” (“The Grandfather”), by Augusto D’Halmar, published in 1906 and 1932 respectively. The originality of this study lies in approaching illustration from the paradigm of technical reproducibility, offering an alternative to the perspective that understands illustration as an intermedial relationship between text and image. By analyzing illustrated magazines as a medium, it argues that the trajectories that allow texts and images to be reproduced simultaneously in a magazine create a unity that redefines the experience of literature. This approach reveals that focusing on the conditions of possibility of technical reproducibility enriches reading, offering new perspectives for the study of literature and visuality in Latin America, and opening innovative avenues for research on narrative and images in print media.