Pelas janelas da casa verde: a tradução da obra machadiana para HQ

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the process of (re)creation of a literary text into comics, performed by the script writer Luiz Antonio Aguiar and by the illustrator Cesar Lobo with Machado de Assis‘ short story The alienist. We intend, as an aim, to gather information that clarify and make the understanding of translation process of Machado‘s text into comics easier, getting more details about the strategies used by Aguiar and Lobo to keep the essence of the work while it is reinvented. We hope to be able to demonstrate that an interpretation of a text, being it verbal or non verbal, interacts with social factors that go through the existence of the artist as well as of the reader, and the used techniques in the production influences the way the discourse would be understood.