Machado in comics form: discursive aspects of an intersemiotic translation

Abstract

The objective of this study is to show some discursive aspects of the work of intersemiotic translation in comic of the O Alienista, Machado de Assis' tale, published in 2007 by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba. It intends to show how the text of the comic book was elaborated and what the effects of meaning that this elaboration has afforded. The theoretical basis of this work is in Discourse Analysis. This study approaches points as the semiotics of comics of O Alienista; some questions about narrative comic; the constructing of character Simão Bacamarte; and the enunciative heterogeneity in the Moon and Ba’s comic book, as a way to seek a discursive identity for the O Alienista comic book. The results indicate that Moon and Ba create a new work by working with the language of comics, and how the identity of the O Alienista is formed from interdiscursive relation.