Japanese Tradition in the Film Adaptation of Dostoevskiy's Novel "The Idiot"

Student: Dmitrieva Lyudmila

Educational Programme: Philological Hermeneutics of School Literary Education Programme (Master)

Final Grade: 10

Year of Graduation: 2016

This thesis presents a study on interpretation of the language of arts as exemplified by two film adaptations of the Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel The Idiot by Akira Kurosawa (“The Idiot”, 1951) and Andrzej Wajda (“Nastasja”, 1994). This comparison illustrates the way that different directors highlight key points in the novel adaptation by using the language of cinema. The study is focused on issues of interpretation of both the language of literature with the cinema language and of the language of culture of a national tradition with a language perceivable for a different tradition, as well as on possibility of comprehending and assimilation of a unique national tradition by other cultures.

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