Burning: A short‑story by Haruki Murakami, a movie by Lee Chang‑ Dong
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https://doi.org/10.34624/rual.v0i10.28135Keywords:
Cinematic adaptation, South Korean cinema, Lee Chang‑Dong, Haruki MurakamiAbstract
The movie Burning (2018), by South Korean director Lee Chang‑Dong, adapts the short‑story «Barn Burning», included in the anthology The Elephant Vanishes (1993), by Haruki Murakami. In this article, I examine Chang‑Dong’s adaptation strategies, regarding four categories: characters, plot, space and time. In this way, I wish to contribute to a reflection upon the dialectics between the literary and the audiovisual language, the proximity and the contrast between both, the challenges of adaptation and the power of creativity.
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