Between aesthetic freedom and academic respect

Authors

  • Matias Rebolledo Dujisin Universidad de Chile

Abstract

In the context of the comparative study of literature and cinema, the purpose of this article is to explore the transformations of the narrative voice in a literary text when it is adapted and transformed into a film. This study will be carried out by analyzing a specific literary text, Thomas Mann’s Death in Venice, and confronting it to its filmic version by Luchino Visconti; by establishing the specificities of each type of discourse, and specifically the particularities of narration proper to each medium, we can expect to understand the theoretic, practical and aesthetic consequences of this fundamental diegetic transformation.

Keywords:

filmic adaptation, narratology, diegesis, narrative, Thomas Mann