Adaptation under perspective Memento Mori and narrative constructions in the short story and in the feature film

Abstract

This article discusses the short story “Memento Mori”, by Jonathan Nolan, and its subsequent cinematographic adaptation, directed by Christopher Nolan, in the year 2000. The objective of this work is to identify the peculiarities inherent to each support, investigating the plot construction strategies and the effects of meaning they generate in the aesthetic experience from literary reading and their subsequent translation into filmic language, reflecting on the idiosyncrasies of each narrative construction and the difficult process of adaptation between languages. For this, a comparative analysis based on the Theories of the Aesthetic Effect and Literary Anthropology is used, which discuss the phenomenon of aesthetic experience, individual and immanent; and the process of attributing meanings.