A construção da personagem Brás Cubas

Abstract

Analyzing the transmutation of Memorias Postumas of Brás Cubas (1881), of Machado de Assis, for the movies, in the adaptations Brás Cubas (1985) and Posthumous Memoirs (2001), it is observed the resources used by the directors, in order to recreate the character Brás Cubas, building. Rosenfeld (CANDIDO et al, 2004) it explains that the character is built as ‘to look the textual author’s ‘, which characterizes, giving her form and voice. Renata Palottini’s studies (1989) concerning the theatrical character and of Antônio Cândido (2004) on the fiction character, they aid in the analysis of the verbal construction of image of the ironic character of Machado de Assis done through the speech and metadiscourse established by the narrator. With base in the theories of these and of other authors, the present work has for objective explain as she feels the character’s construction in the literary and cinematographic works foregoing.