Adaptação em quadrinhos e sua autonomia em relação ao discurso literário

Abstract

This paper aims at demonstrating, based on the central idea that every adaptation is a cultural product as autonomous and creative as its hypotext, that comics adaptations recreate the form and the content of its literary base-text through their own syntactic resources. Such fact is essential to justify the infeasibility of creating a hierarchy of arts based on aesthetic inferiority and superiority. Thus, the comics adaptation “The Match Girl”, made by Brazilian comics artist Fabiano Barroso, will be analyzed in comparison with its hypotext, the short story “The Little Match Girl”, by Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen.