O presente da ficção histórica
2019; University of Wisconsin Press; Volume: 56; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.3368/lbr.56.1.39
ISSN1548-9957
Autores Tópico(s)Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
ResumoAbstract This article proposes a comparative analysis of the trilogy O tempo e o vento (Time and the Wind, 1949–1961) by Erico Verissimo and four of its audiovisual adaptations, produced between 1956 and 2013. Employing a multifaceted methodology and theoretical framework that draws from literary analysis, film studies, and the theory of adaptation, I examine how these four transmedial adaptations diverge greatly in the way that they approach the fictional material in Verissimo’s novel, reenact the historical past and conceptualize the nation. Subscribing to the idea that any given fictional historical narrative reads the past from the perspective of the actual circumstances of its production, this article seeks to understand the different political and ideological meanings assigned by each of these audiovisual interpretations to the myth of the origin of the nation as formulated by Verissimo. The study of the audiovisual rereadings of Verissimo’s novel, I argue, serves as a window to understand important changes in the recent Brazilian political and ideological trajectory.
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