“A MAIOR FLOR DO MUNDO”: FROM LITERATURE TO FILM – A STUDY IN COMPARATIVE LITERATURE

Luis Cardoso, Andreia Baptista

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This article is a comparative study between José Saramago's “A Maior Flor do Mundo”, published in 2001, and its film adaptation made in 2007 by filmmaker Juan Pablo Etcheverry. Based on the discussion of the similarities and differences between the text and the film, it is intended to demonstrate that a film adaptation can add value to the narrative, through the inclusion of scenarios, characters, colours and sounds, which make it more understandable in the eyes of children. After a theoretical contextualization of the concepts of comparative literature, children's literature, adaptation and film adaptation, in the first part of this article we discuss the moral messages that José Saramago intends to transmit and the importance of this literary work in the child's individual, pedagogical and intellectual development. In the second part of the article, the characteristics of both works - literary and film - are compared, namely, the plot of both stories and the creative and moral sense of José Saramago and Juan Pablo Etcheverry.

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comparative literature, children's literature, José Saramago, adaptation

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejlll.v4i2.213

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