O conto O enfermeiro de Machado de Assis em três versões: jornal, livro e roteiro

Abstract

This research is focused on the transition of the Machado de Assis tale The male nurse from the newspapers to the books and from the books to the movies script, showing the necessary text adaptations due to the different media environment. First of all, an approach about the brazilian press is necessary since the tale, matter investigated, was published in the newspaper in the period of industrial reproducing techniques. In this way, the newspaper appears as per a product from this media. By the other hand, the book claimed for a paused and attempted reading. It was like a single voice to the few people accessible. This initial approach is very important and necessary to consider the architecture delineation of the tale on the script, it means, a landscape study of the narrative phenomenon. The main assumption of this investigation is that the literary tales roots, when translated to the other media environment, written press and movies script in this specific case, found a new development space concerned to its aesthetic way, reducing the double meaning effect to reach the passive receiver. The mentioned tale, issued at the Gazeta de Notícias newspaper on July 13rd, 1884, for the first time, besides its intimist title Inner things , there was explanation and other reading facilitators, suppressed on book version. In this one, besides its title modification from Inner things to The male nurse , is noticed a compilation effort resulting in an intensification of the double meaning image of the author-narrator role Procópio, at the same time, crime culprit and innocent. Even now in the movie script, performed in 1998 by Melanie Dimantas, some scenes expansion and suppression was done, that guides the interpretation to an opposition between innocence and premeditation, with reduces the double meaning effect