Estratégias narrativas em O tambor: o diálogo entre a literatura e o cinema

Abstract

Debates on the adaptation of literary works to the cinema have already surpassed moral judgments related to fidelity and treason, finding a more objective approach. It implies, for example, the comparison between the movie adaptation and the original work focusing on intertextuality and using, as points for analysis, the selection of literary material made during the filmic realization process, the visual achievement of the literary text, the update of some of the themes brought out by the writer and the narrative focus, among others. This work aims at analyzing the narrative structure of Gunter Grass’ novel The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) and Volker Schlondorff’s homonymous movie by observing the complex articulation of Grass’ narrative focus and the director’s rendering of that structure, which results in different ways of perceiving and interpreting both the narrating character and the universe he is placed in.