A televisão como "tradutora" : veredas do grande sertão na Rede Globo
AUTOR(ES)
Paulo Sampaio Xavier de Oliveira
DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO
1999
RESUMO
This thesis focuses on the television program Grande sertão: veredas, produced by the Brazilian network Globo in 1985, based on the homonymous book by João Guimarães ROSA(1956/1986). My hypothesis is that the main criteria used in the transformation of the novel into a piece of fiction for television were the chosen format and its prestige function within the network program schedule. Traditionally, academic investigation of similar themes tends to insist on the different artistic languages, assuming the original work to be stable and potentialIy graspable in its "essence". This was not the chosen path in my research, whose main theoretical references are the notions of "rewriting" (LEFEVERE,1992a-b), "regulated transformation" (DERRIDA1972/1975) and "appropriation" (ARRoJO, 1993e). Additionally, I also used the notions of "interpretative community" (FISH,1980) and "author-function" (FOUCAULT1,969/1983). The empirical support was given through a study of the way the novel and the television program were received by the critics and in the midia, together with a dose reading of both texts. In the case of the television production, I had access to the synopsis, the script and the final version of the program. My "double reading" (of both novel and television production) was inspired by the daim to "fidelity to the original work" sustained by the television network and given prominence in the midia. The results of the research lead to the conclusion that the achieved "fidelity" is more closely related to certain critic traditions, but above alI to the interests of the network itself. Nevertheless, the contact of an enormous television public with Rosa s novel amounts to an "afterlife" of the original, in BENJAMINs (1923/1972) terms, not in another language or culture, but in another textual system of increasing interest for translation studies.
ASSUNTO(S)
tradução e interpretação televisão cinema e literatura
