The image as a text in the literary adaptation of “O Mulato”

Abstract

This article analyzes the relationship between image and text in the adaptation of O Mulato, produced by Iramir Araujo and Ronilson Freire, in 2019. Thus, this work aims to investigate how the transposition of the verbal language, of the published literary text, occurred originally in 1881, by Aluísio Azevedo, for the comic book language, especially for illustrations. Therefore, we used as theoretical support the propositions of Eisner (1995 regarding comic books and the notes of Camello (2017) and McCloud (2005) on adaptation of literary classics to comics. exploratory, consisted of a selective survey of bibliographic data, supporting the method of comparative analysis, which resulted in the extraction of excerpts from the comic book version and the original text. constituted of another language, it does not extinguish the essence of the Romance written by Aluísio Azevedo, being possible to recognize in the illustrations the plot of the source work.