Mulheres de Eça de Queirós: o romance português e o cinema brasileiro

Abstract

This article is the result of a Scientific Initiation research, with the scholarship Capes/Fapesb support, developed at DEVIR, an interdepartmental research group, constituted at the Federal Institute of Bahia (IFBA) and dedicated to the study of identity, gender and subjectivity issues. For this text we analyzed two works of different media: the novel O Primo Basílio, published in 1878, and the homonymous film, directed by Daniel Filho and released in 2007. We select scenes that are reproduced in the two works and we tried to understand how the process of constitution of two characters takes place: Luísa and Leopoldina (Leonor, in the film). We analyzed how the spaces of circulation of the feminine conform in the Portuguese context, in the work of Eça de Queirós, and in the Brazilian context, in the film set in São Paulo in the late 1950s. For this, we consider literature and cinema as processes of social reflection, which allow to be analyzed and problematized in the interrelationship between the work and society.