Clarice Lispector e o filme “O livro dos prazeres”: adaptação e leitura em discurso

Abstract

Beside The relationships between the literary text and its adaptation to cinematographic language make up a rich scenario for study. But what are the limits and possibilities of this dialogue between works, languages and forms of artistic fruition? What markers would guide the adaptation of a literary work for cinema? Based on these questions, the purpose of this essay is to reflect on the meanings of the adaptation of literary works for cinema, having as anchor point the experience of the film "O livro dos prazeres", from 2020, a "free adaptation" of the book "Uma aprendizagem ou O livro dos prazeres”, by Clarice Lispector, originally released in 1969. In this essay, we start from the consideration that film and book compose distinct and unique works, although porous. The identification of the film as a "free adaptation" is questioned, allowing both a reading that demands the adaptation of one language (literature) to another (film) and the freedom (granted to the director and the screenwriter, for example) associated with the fact that the film is, in itself, a new work. The film "O livro dos prazeres", therefore, emerges as a work that can be analyzed in itself, surpassing the need of a reading glued to the literary text, at the same time that it can be understood in dialogue with the original Claricean text, making both analytical movements licit from the linguistic point of view.