The search theme in Alice Munro and Pedro Almodóvar: female characters

Abstract

This article aims to reflect on the poetic images of the feminine, from the “theme of the search”, in the work of the Canadian writer Alice Ann Munro, more specifically in three short stories in the book Fugitive (2014) and the filmic transposition of these tales, by Pedro Almodóvar Caballero in the movie Juliet (2016). From the book, the selected stories were: "Occasion", "In a moment" and "Silence". These tales function as intertexts in Almodóvar's filmography. For the development of the article, we sought theoretical, critical and methodological support in comparative studies in literature and other arts, intermediate studies and studies on the theme of travel as existential displacements of female characters, which in their erasures configure the “theme of search ”, contemplating other potent derivations for literary creation as well as for filmic creation, for example, images of silence, archetypal images of the feminine, childhood memories, generating a movement of departures and arrivals rich in displacements of the feminine self. The study methodology used here allows us to reflect on the processes of intermediary and transcreation of the literary narrative to the filmic narrative, analyzing the basic operations of the filmic construction, which will result in the expansion and transformation of the literary sign. It has as theoretical bases Balogh (2005), Walter Benjamin (2010), Luis Claudio Costa (2010), Isla Duncan (2011), Michelle Gadpaille (1988), Brad Hooper (2008), George Woodcok (1986), Claus Clüver (2006), Santiago Kovadloff (2003), Elisabeth Badinter (1980), Mikhail Bakhtin (1996), among others.