A problemática da transposição do sentido de olfato em O Perfume - a história de um assassino, de Patrick Süskind e em Perfume - a história de um assassino, de Tom Tykwer

Abstract

The present study has the aim to analyze comparatively Patrick Süskind´s novel Perfume – the history of a murderer (2006) and the homonymous movie of Tom Tykwer (2006), with focus on the concern of the sense of smell. The issue related to adapt novels to cinema has gained special attention of researchers on the fields of Literary Studies, Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies, nevertheless this study is conceived on Literary Studies field. The historical facts raised on the novel and transposed into the film refers to issues on postmodernity and highlight that the critic of the past, in terms of rewriting those facts, has a significant importance. The research is qualitative and for the comparative analysis of the novel and the movie, the corpus was referring to fotograms, the movie script and the excerpts of the novel in order to analyze how authors transpose the sense of smell in each of artistic products, the novel and the movie. It was perceived that the use of metaphors, comparisons and other figures of speech, overriding memory, has the relation with the process of representing the senses, with the focus on smell, in Patrick Süskind´s novel. Concerning to the movie, it was possible to ascertain that the protagonist was taken as more human and that transposition of the sense of smell came from the montage of images and the overriding of memory from the specific sequences as well as from the narrative aspects of it by means of illumination and soundtracks.