“O Mundo Inimigo” by Ruffato (2005) and “Redemoinho” by Villamarim (2016)

approaches between cinematographic and literary narratives

Abstract

This paper presents the reading of three images from the film Redemoinho (Villamarim, 2016) and their corresponding excerpts from the book O Mundo Inimigo (Ruffato, 2005), based on the aesthetic appreciation of cinema in the book, caused by the sharing and experiences of the sensitive, in the terms of Rancière (2009b). To carry out this task, we interweave approaches in intersemiotic adaptation/translation, such as those of Hutcheon (2013), Plaza (2013) and Stam (2006), and other general perspectives on cinematography, such as the studies of Xavier (2017) and Rancière (2009), and cinematographic techniques, as seen in Van Sijll (2017) and Vanoye and Goliot-Lété (2012). Likewise, in relation to literature, we consider perspectives that emphasize aesthetic enjoyment, such as in Todorov (2012), Schøllhammer (2012), Candido (2000), among others, as well as on literary structure. In order to expand the alternatives for enjoying books and films, we address the similarities and differences between both arts, based on perspectives on film language, film adaptation and intersemiotic translation, as well as highlighting the complex situations that involve the adaptation of literature for cinema. We believe that the mobilizing potential of the arts, as Mitchell (2015) rightly points out, combined with the representations of characters and other countless resources of books and films, appear both as a possibility of aesthetic enjoyment and as a means of forming (critical) reading in literature and cinema.