Love and adaptation in “O homem duplicado, by Denis Villeneuve and José Saramago

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the novel "O homem duplicado", by José Saramago, and its film adaptation, entitled "Enemy", by Denis Villeneuve, and the different conceptions of love present in both novel and film. The article follows a line of reasoning that understands novel and film with isonomy, without creating a hierarchical relationship between the original work and the adaptation. Thus, the film director is understood with the same authorial power as a literary author, with the freedom to alter the source material as he finds it necessary so his worldview is present in the final product.