The mode as expression of the point of view in Dom Casmurro, the novel, and Capitu, the micro series

• Main Author: Monteiro, Alexandre de Assis
• Publication Date: 2020
• Other Authors: Mousinho, Luiz Antonio
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Letras de Hoje (Online)
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• topic: Dom Casmurro.Capitu.Narrative.Microseries.Mode.Focusing.; Don Casmurro. Capitu. Narrativa. Microserie. Modo. Enfocación.; Dom Casmurro. Capitu. Narrativa. Microssérie. Modo. Focalização

The works Dom Casmurro, the novel, and Capitu, the micro series have a mode of transit between them, recently operationalized (2008) by Luís Fernando Carvalho, which reveals the adaptation of the verbal discourse to the visual verb, without disregarding the fact that the whole supply of narrative information comes from a single source: Dom Casmurro, the narrator character. This adaptation instigates us to enter the intricacies of this process in order to understand the different points of view, the illusion of truth, the narrative authors proposed initially by the narrator of the first work and then by the focal-adapter of the second. The axis thesis we propose is that the ostensible speech of the narrator of the novel was not interrupted in the narrative flow of the images, to the point of fragmenting or compromising their meanings, on the contrary, it preserves them and violates them at the same time, constructing a new work and emphasizing the identity of the “other” in which it is protected, without being the same. For the verification and perception of the mode of this transition, we are based on the narrative categories related to narrators and focusers, from theoretical, conceptual and literary supports of vast bibliography