“Não era assim no livro”

Abstract

Brian McFarlane is an Adjunct Professor at Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne, Australia. He stands out for contributing to the debate on the fine line between film and literature, investigating the task of adaptation of canonical and non-canonical literary works on screen. The debate McFarlane proposes in his text “It wasn’t like that in the book” (2000) is still valuable for the current studies on film adaptation, as it fosters new investigations of cinematographic adaptations in the light of the narrative construction, character and literary resources in general. Hence, we seek to present bellow the translation of the aforementioned text, not translated into Brazilian Portuguese yet.