Open AccessLITERATURE AND FILM: THE CONTRADICTIONS OF THE HUMAN CONDITION IN THE ADAPTATION OF DOMINGO À TARDE, BY FERNANDO NAMORA – A JOURNEY TO QUESTION LIFE AND DEATH
Author(s) -
Luís Cardoso
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
european journal of literary studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2601-971X
DOI - 10.46827/ejls.v2i1.127
Subject(s) - movie theater , portuguese , art , character (mathematics) , metaphor , art history , film director , portrait , humanities , aesthetics , philosophy , theology , linguistics , geometry , mathematics
The novel Domingo à Tarde, written by the Portuguese author Fernando Namora, was adapted by António de Macedo to a film, centred on the life of a doctor that sees death in front of him, on the face of a patient and by this incarnation of death itself, thinks about the human condition in a journey to find himself. The novel and the film are connected by this character and his voyage, a metaphor for us all, and gives the spectator a portrait of the Portuguese “New Cinema”. Fernando Namora himself would integrate the dialogues between literature and cinema in this “Cinema Novo”, namely with the adaptation of Domingo à Tarde. This film reveals the aesthetic proposals that emerged with the discussions about cinema in Portugal and signify the technical and aesthetic consecration of a cinema that has been wanted since the 1950s, but that the economic conditions of film production in Portugal have not allowed happening.
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