Lavoura arcaica: diálogos entre literatura e cinema e outras interfaces

Abstract

The focus of this work is the novel Lavoura arcaica (To the Left of the Father), from the writer Raduan Nassar, and its adaptation to the cinema by the film director Luiz Fernando Carvalho. It analyses the possible interpretations in the adaptation process as recreation of the novel, and discussing themes like the family, the forbidden passions and the tragedy. This analysis is based on the common point of view of the authors like Freud, Bataille, Marcuse, Bakhtin and Nietzsche, which references make easier the secular comprehension of interdict, prohibition, and transgression, all these aspects founded in Raduan’s novel.