O Plebiscito chileno: NO em páginas e tela

Abstract

This work aims to study the relationship between two works of different natures: the book The days of the rainbow (2012) by Antonio Skármeta and the movie NO (2012) directed by Pablo Larraín. The works have as object the Chilean plebiscite occurred in 1988. To understand the adaptive relationship we analyze the mechanisms of construction of literary and cinematographic narrative. The literary criticism seeks theoretical support in Aguiar e Silva (1979), Ian Watt (2010), Jonathan Culler (1999), György Lukács (1999) to better understand the particularities of the genre. The issues surrounding the adaptation were studied with the support of theorists such as Linda Hutcheon (2013), Robert Stam (2008) and André Bazin (1991). The studies focus on the adapted product because it understands, in accordance with what Robert Rosenstone (1997) says about the artistic image as a challenge to the official story. Our research assumes the conclusion that the film distances itself from the literary work precisely by immersing itself in its own semiotic universes. While Skármeta uses the novel to deal with the poetry present in the plebiscite process by opponents of the dictatorial system, the film explores the television media as the central and decisive element for No's victory in the plebiscite.