Do clássico aos quadrinhos: uma análise comparativa da obra "O mulato" de Aluísio Azevedo com a adaptação de Iramir Araújo e Ronilson Freire

Abstract

This study performs a comparative analysis of two versions of O Mulato, the original text by Aluísio Azevedo (1881) and the adaptation (2019) by Iramir Araújo and Ronilson Freire. During the analysis, we sought to investigate how the adaptation process of the literary text to the graphic narrative occurred, to examine the aesthetic-narrative choices that supported the transposition of the literary text to the comic book language and to verify whether the adaptation, despite the connection with the work source, is characterized as an independent work. Therefore, we used as theoretical support the propositions of Calvino (1993) on Literature, Eisner (1995) and Ramos (2009) on comics and Camello (2017) and McCloud (2008) on the adaptation of literary classics to the Comics. The research methodology, in a descriptive-exploratory character, 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. The comparison between the two works led us to recognize that in the adaptation of O Mulato all the aesthetic-narrative elements were transposed to sequential art, in which the proximity of the plot did not prevent the emergence of an authentic narrative. Thus, we conclude that, although the adaptation consists of another language, it does not extinguish the essence of the Romance written by Aluísio Azevedo.