“BRUGGE THE DEAD” BY GEORGES RODENBACH. FROM PHOTO-NOVEL TO THE CINEMATIC ADAPTATION

Abstract

The article analyzes the transformation of the literary text, which has a visual (photographic) component, into the material of film adaptation on the example of Georges Rodenbach’s novel “The Dead [City] of Bruges”, designated as a “photo-narrative” or “photo-novel”, and Roland Verhavert’s film “Brugge-die-Stille”. The intermedial transition involves three main elements: plot (narrative motifs), principles of the space organization (descriptive motifs) and the color symbolism (semantic motifs)