Capitu: a metafictional transposition

Abstract

The goal is to examine the concept of metafiction, more precisely its connection with the representation theater present in the miniseries Capitu, from director Luiz Fernando Carvalho and aired by Globo in 2008, an adaptation of the romance Dom Casmurro (1899), Machado de Assis, part of an event celebrating the centenary of the writer´s death. we intend to correlate the intimate and dialogic language that the narrator keeps with the reader in the literary work with the metafictional aspects presented in the audiovisual medium, showing that the new aesthetic mold adopted by the director searches links with Machado´s style: the denial of the narrative tool that create the illusion of reality, making it clear that his words are consciously elaborated and that the romance is nothing but a fictional construction. (AU)