São Bernardo: a posição do narrador no romance e no filme

Abstract

With the present article we aim to analyze the narrator's position in Graciliano Ramos's São Bernardo (1934) and in the homonymous film directed by Leon Hirszman in 1971. Both stories bring Paulo Honório, a first-person narrator, who presents his life trajectory from a narrative with metalinguistic aspects. Our analysis is based on the work about intersemiotic translation by Roman Jakobson (1991), who understands it as the translation of verbal signs in nonverbal systems of signs, and Julio Plaza (2003),who theorizes about the typologies of translations from Peircean concepts. We draw a study of an analytical-comparative nature in order to determine how the narrator construction and position works in both products, considering the relations of index translation between literary text and audiovisual composition.