The book focuses on Gabriel García Márquez’s relations with the world of cinema. Its purpose is to explore a less well known but still highly significant area of his activity as a writer and to establish a new angle or point of view from which to understand his astonishing narrative skills and powers of invention. García Márquez’s film work forms an intrinsic part of his overall aesthetic and his literary poetics, albeit with differing emphases and with significant discontinuities. The first part of the book reconstructs the trajectory of García Márquez’s career in cinema and his connections with the world of film in order to trace and reveal its continuities with and its importance for his ideas of narrative. The second part of the book looks at all the screenplays written by García Márquez on which actual films have been based. These are analysed according to thematic and aesthetic concerns and placed in relation to the novels and short stories with which they are ‘twinned’ in terms of the film product. This analysis brings out the variations and differences in approach and technique in the treatment of the narrative material for either a film screenplay or a ‘cuento’ intended for publication.
Il cinema di Gabriel Garcia Marquez
ROCCO, ALESSANDRO
2009-01-01
Abstract
The book focuses on Gabriel García Márquez’s relations with the world of cinema. Its purpose is to explore a less well known but still highly significant area of his activity as a writer and to establish a new angle or point of view from which to understand his astonishing narrative skills and powers of invention. García Márquez’s film work forms an intrinsic part of his overall aesthetic and his literary poetics, albeit with differing emphases and with significant discontinuities. The first part of the book reconstructs the trajectory of García Márquez’s career in cinema and his connections with the world of film in order to trace and reveal its continuities with and its importance for his ideas of narrative. The second part of the book looks at all the screenplays written by García Márquez on which actual films have been based. These are analysed according to thematic and aesthetic concerns and placed in relation to the novels and short stories with which they are ‘twinned’ in terms of the film product. This analysis brings out the variations and differences in approach and technique in the treatment of the narrative material for either a film screenplay or a ‘cuento’ intended for publication.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
