LITERATURE AND CINEMA: LÚCIO CARDOSO AND PAULO CÉSAR SARACENI’S CHARACTERS

Abstract

The present work contextualizes the adaptation that Paulo César Saraceni made of Lúcio Cardoso's novel Crônica da Casa Assassinada (1959), based on articles and interviews published in newspapers. It also highlights the reception of the film A Casa Assassinada (1971) in the Rio de Janeiro newspapers Jornal do Brasil and Correio da Manhã, to demonstrate how the adaptation was initially perceived in the press. Grounded in Linda Hutcheon’s (2013) theory of adaptation, it proposes a comparison between the two works through an analysis of the characters Timóteo and Nina. Like other adaptations, Saraceni’s film does not conflate with Lúcio Cardoso's novel, nor can it replace it, but its dialogue with the text is explicit. Through cinematic language, the director and his team made it possible to see in action much of what Lúcio Cardoso achieved with the written word on the page.