Migrating characters in literature-to-film adaptations: reflections based on The double and Enemy

Abstract

Acknowledging the preponderance of characters in the conformation and configuration of the most relevant meanings of the narratives to which they belong, in order to study literature to film adaptation ? as a relationship between narratives, texts and media ? one must assess those characters’ transformations at the time of their intertextual and intermedial transit. In this article, based on the clock of character designed by Jens Eder (2010), we propose to analyse how adapted and adapting characters converge and diverge regarding each of their four components: as artifacts, fictional beings, symbols and symptoms.