WRITTEN IMAGES: INTERMEDIATIC REFERENCES BETWEEN LITERATURE AND CINEMA IN VIDAS SECAS
Graciliano Ramos; Intermediality; Literature and Cinema; Brazilian literature; 1930's Romance
In this thesis we analyze the novel Vidas secas ([1938] 2017) by Graciliano Ramos (1892-1953) through the hypothesis that the way in which the narrative is articulated in the work, notably regarding the use of indirect, free indirect and direct modes of speech, stablish on the page intermidiality references to the cinema. In order to unravel the process of evoking the image through writing, we examine the narrative structure of the book, comparing it with the notions of camera, framing, montage and film making and its theory. Considering also the argument, to wich there's no discordance, that in Vidas secas the representation of the subaltern does not occur through its submission to the voice of the intellectual who aligned the narrative, we propose that the borders crossing between the media orchestrated in the text produces, as an effect, a vivification of the world and the perspective of the protagonists of the plot for the reader. In addition to this committed guiding hypothesis, we in this study reflect on how intermediality is situated in the literary project developed by Graciliano Ramos