À esquerda do pai: a narrativa de Lavoura Arcaica na literatura e no cinema

Abstract

This dissertation is situated at the intersection of literature and cinema. The objective is to launch a new look on its respective creation and signification methods, considered as their specificities. Therefore, even if constructed in part or entirely from a literary text, cinema diverges, exceeds and crosses the initial status, presenting different dimensions and processes. As literature and cinema operate in the same environment, the one of narration, in a second moment, a comparative analysis is made from both works (the romance and the film Lavoura arcaica) and its texts are confronted thru some of its narrative procedures. From the adopted study approach, it is problematized in which measure the romance and the film do present the conflict father/tradition (Iohána) versus son/modernity (André), tying it directly with the question of regional culture decurrent from the conflict between the Lebanese tradition, descendent from a Jewish and Christian immigration culture, and another regional and cultural territory. It shows then how such confrontation is perceived and constructed from the literary speech of Raduan Nassar and, later, translated and constituted into the filmic speech of Luiz Fernando Carvalho.