BETWEEN BOOK, SCRIPT AND FILM: NARRATIVENESS AND ADAPTATION IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

Abstract

This study analyzes the film adaptation of Estive em Lisboa e lembrei de você (2009), written by Luiz Ruffato and adapted for cinema by José Barahona in 2015, aiming to understand narrative transformations in the transition from literature to film. It is a qualitative and bibliographic study of a theoretical and analytical nature, grounded in adaptation and intersemiotic translation studies, particularly the contributions of Linda Hutcheon, Robert Stam, and Jean-Claude Carrière. The corpus consists of the novel, the screenplay, the film, interviews with the director, and observations conducted during the filming process in Lisbon. The methodology involved a comparative analysis of the literary and cinematic works, as well as a reflection on the screenplay as a mediating instance between literature and cinema. The results indicate that adaptation goes beyond fidelity-based approaches and should be understood as a creative and interpretative practice that reorganizes narrative elements through audiovisual resources. The analysis also demonstrates that the preservation of the protagonist’s voice, the emphasis on urban space, and the incorporation of documentary aesthetics contribute to the creation of a new narrative experience. The study concludes that film adaptation constitutes a privileged space for understanding contemporary narrativity as an interartistic phenomenon, highlighting the dialogue between literature and cinema in contemporary Brazilian cultural production.