Chết ở Venice: Từ Văn Học đến Điện Ảnh trên Phương Diện Cốt Truyện và Nhân Vật

Abstract

The novel Death in Venice, more than 100 years old, is the early masterpiece of the great writer Thomas Mann.  In the 1971 film version, famous director Luchino Visconti brought Mann's short novel to the screen with fundamental changes in two aspects: plotlines and characters.  Cinematography may not be able to reproduce the satirical sentences with many layers of meaning in Mann's language, but it is a means for viewers to search for those layers of meaning, cinema creates ambiguity through other means beyond writing.  The article is built from the perspective of narratology and adaptation theory to explain the method of adapting literary works into films through specific adaptation practices Death in Venice is based on the change of character's point of view and reformulates the details, promising to bring a new standpoint on Visconti’s re-creation of transformation.