Franz Kafka no cinema animado

Abstract

This article analyzes A country doctor, a short story written by Franz Kafka, and its adaptation to the cinema, the homonymous animation created by the Japanese artist Koji Yamamura. The objective is to investigate how the narrative and the atmosphere in the fantastic of Kafka are applied to the animation through the comparative dialogue between audiovisual and literature. It was verified that the main features used were the graphic deformations in the characters’ design, the exaggeration of gestures, the emphasis on the peculiar motion of figures, the abrupt accelerations and the colorization that privileged cold or yellowish tones. The disturbing sound environment, marked by the violin, the piano and the vocal interpretations of the Japanese voice actors were also configured as crucial elements to re-create the Kafkaesque fantastic.