Caminhos intercambiáveis entre Literatura e Cinema: perspectivas textuais em The Affair.

Abstract

This work is concerned on the analyses on the similarities and dissimilarities between literary and cinematographic language. The analyses is based on the hypothesis that it may be possible to apply cinema as an alternative to literature, providing readers and spectators an aesthetic experience in terms of quality, guiding them to their emancipation. In order to understand how the functional of an audiovisual narrative is established, the Wolfgang Iser’s concept of textual perspective in literary Anthropology was considered. The possibility of emancipation through the use of aesthetic experience provided by the cinema is justified according to two mainly reasons. Firstly, the process of construction of an audiovisual narrative is similar to the procedures that are used in literary texts. Secondly, the cinematographic theory establishes itself based on the literature theories, considering all existing indiosyncrasies. Furthermore, literary Anthropology is able to emphasize the similarities between literary language and cinematographic language. It is possible by explaining the inner procedures performed by the individual during his own process of designating sense. In its turn, the process of designating sense is complex and goes beyond literature turning a fictionalization subject into an anthropological one. After analyzing the TV series ‘The Affair’, it was possible to understand how textual perspectives have been alternated constantly as an attempt to reach an intentional perspective, which could embrace the work in its totality. Consequently, literature and cinema appear to be two interchangeable manners of achieving a common goal, i.e., readers and spectators' emancipation through aesthetic experience in order to rectify human’s necessity of fictionalization.