Howl's moving castle : do verbal ao imagético - a função autor, a interpretação e a tradução

Abstract

In this work, we think the authorship focusing on the author function, a concept built by Foucault (2000a) that means a place that can be taken by any subject to perform the complex task of text organization. Therefore, our proposal is to understand the discursive performance of this function in intersemiotic translation of a literary work. The literature provides interdisciplinarity which allows us to articulate concepts and theories in search of understanding phenomena in the everyday life. At the beginning of the XXI century, wonderful and fantastic narratives become a great success what provides the publication and republication of historical texts as Harry Potter by J. K. Rolling, The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien, The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. All these successful works were produced cinematically and has a place of common origin, the United Kingdom, where the book Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones also came from. This book is part of the corpus of this work along with its translation entitled Hauru in Ugoku Shiro Japanese film director Hayao Miyazaki. In this context, authorship is a widely discussed issue in several lines and theoretical perspectives, providing extensive discussions. We aim at building a path that unites theory and analysis which enabled us to expand our research focus that is not limited by written discourse, but still dealing with the translation, focusing on the characterization of the characters changes and the different materiality, as well as to discuss the process of interpretation and characterization of a new work by means of translation. Through this research, we were able to observe that the author function is realized in the implementation of the written text to the filmic materiality in the director?s position who occupied this empty space, named by Foucault (2000a) as author function. Thus, it would be by occupying this position that the director can accomplish the complex task of selecting, organizing, deleting, modifying, inserting statements while moving directions between the works. It is also possible to say that in our theoretical path - analytic sense that different effects are produced, that means that we have changes, insertions and exclusions that can signify for the public, and these changes characterize author function in the translation.