Tecendo narrativas e desvendando sentidos em minisséries: uma análise intertextual do processo de adaptação em Dois Irmãos

Abstract

This research aims to discuss the intertextual phenomena evoked in the transposition of Milton Hatoum’s novel Dois Irmãos (2000) to the miniseries of the same name (2017), directed by Luiz Fernando Carvalho. The objective is to investigate, in discursive practices, the intertextual relationships of derivation that highlight the adaptation process, enabling the (re)construction of meanings, the autonomy of the television work, and its dialogue with the original novel. Given the growing number of adaptations of literary works for audiovisual media, this study also aims to contribute to the understanding of the transcoding from one communication system to another to maintain the essence of the primary text through intertextual resources. Methodologically, the corpus consisted of ten scenes that stood out most in the novel and appeared in the miniseries, observing what was added or removed, considering the intertextual parameters used in the adaptation process to reconfigure meanings in the new medium. The analysis was divided into two specific moments: analysis of the scenes with an emphasis on adaptation as a process (Hutcheon, 2013); and comparative analysis between the original text and the text adapted for the miniseries based on the intertextual parameters of transposition (Carvalho, 2018) evoked. We thus sought to discuss how the reformulation process took place in these excerpts, without emphasizing the criterion of fidelity, but rather the process of adaptation and production of meanings. We start from the assumption that television adaptation is achieved through changes in the type of language used in the novel, that is, from verbal to multisemiotic, respecting, to a greater or lesser extent, elements of the original text’s content through planned intertextual transposition resources. To this end, we rely on the theoretical contributions of Textual Linguistics, highlighting the concepts of genre and text (Cavalcante et al., 2022, Adam, 2011, Bakhtin, 2016), intertextuality (Cavalcante et al., 2022, Carvalho, 2018, and Piègay-Gros, 2010) and adaptation (Hutcheon, 2013), among other scholars and concepts that are articulated and complement each other. At the end of the research, the analysis reveals that the transposition of the novel to the miniseries is a planned process that highlights the autonomy of the television work. From the perspective of strict intertextuality by derivation, the comparison of fragments from the book with their respective scenes shows how the adaptation used audiovisual language resources, such as the passage of time represented in the miniseries. This allowed the narrative to meet the demands of the new medium and establish a dialogue with the novel, constructing meanings without losing the essence of the original work. It is in this scenario of sharing technologies and knowledge that language manifests itself verbally in the novel and through sound and photographic resources in the miniseries, thus increasing the field of investigation for scholars of language practice and the production of meaning in various media.