Literatura e cinema: dois sobrevoos sobre a obra Abril despedaçado a partir de Ismael Kadaré e Walter Salles

Abstract

The aim of this work was to analyze the process of transposition of the literary work Abril despedaçado by the Albanian Ismail Kadaré to the homonymous film of the director Walter Salles. For this reason, it was proposed a discussion about the implications of the relationship between literature and cinema. For the purpose of theoretical support, this dissertation was thought in the methodological perspective of comparative literature, which is defined by Tania Franco Carvalhal as something that is beyond linguistic and national borders and that can be thought in any study that involves at least two different means of expression. As comparative literature is a branch of literary studies that is characterized by multidisciplinarity, as defined by Claüs Cluver, it cannot be said that it has its own methodology. In this sense, some conceptions about semiotics and intersemiotics were used to enrich the discussion as well as the concept of intermediality. The objective was to understand the possibilities of this encounter, taking into account the particularities of each language.