Gregor Samsa’s portrait of sorrow

from literature to cinema

Abstract

This work deals with a study on how the suffering of the protagonist Gregor Samsa is shown, considering the adaptation process of the soap opera The Metamorphosis to the scope of cinematographic language. As objects of study, the original literary production Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and its adapted version for the film language directed for Jan Nemec in 1974 will be used. The methodology used to guide the work is the bibliography. We will then try to make explicit the reference readings to the kafkaesque work for authors such as Blanchot, Anders, Carone and others, correlating them with the critical perception of Walter Benjamin, Linda Hutcheon and Eisinstein about cinema and film adaptations. In this way, the objective is to appropriate the fragments that demonstrate the suffering of the protagonist of the novel, to see how his suffering is brought to light for the film adaptation.