Literatura e cinema: a transposição midiática e a adaptação de Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, de Machado de Assis

Abstract

This article has as its theme the adaptation of the novel Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis, which aims to analyze how the media uses media transposition and intersemiotic transmutation to represent the narrative aspects of the literary work, the characterization of the beceasedauthor and the description of the dimension of Machadian skepticism of bourgeois life portrayed by Realism within the filmic narrative. The study is justified as it seeks to understand how the transformation of the verbal sign/ book occurs to the visual, the moving image, taking into account the differences between the two forms of artistic expressions. The objective is to demonstrate that André Klotzel’s Posthumous Memories is a creative process and not a mere reproduction of the realistic narrative, since the feature of intersemiosis (Jakobson, 2001) allows the director and screenwriter the act of then create the text for the cinematic language. The analysis, based on the inductive method from the descriptive, qualitative and bibliographical research of Demo (1994) e Gil (2008), fits the Interarts and comparative studies, having as theoretical assumptions the theory of adaptation of Hutcheon (2013), the intermidiality of Clüver (2011) and Rajewsky (2012), as well as the relationship between literature and cinema with Bernardet (1991), Brito (2006), Comparato (2000), Field (2001), Xavier (2003) and Bosi (2003) when discussing the social realism contained in the film. The cinematographic work is not only revealed as a formal product of the postmodern era focused on the technical reproductivity of art, but is a process of creation that always reveals a new fact.