Globos’s Eça de Queirós

Abstract

The production and realisation by the Rede Globo of a mini-series inspired by Eça de Queirós’s romance Os Maias shows an attempt to deepen the presence of the author in Brazil. This was also an exercise that raised important questions related to the problems of adaptation. From the script written by Maria Adelaide Amaral, the producer Luis Fernando Carvalho directed a first version that was shown on TV as a series of episodes. Later this producer proceeded with a new edition, now for DVD, in which he readjusted, removed or added from the original production. In this new edition a tension with the author of the script is deduced. Subordinating to the format that a DVD edition requires – in terms of support, language and medium, and also to the standard quality of Globo – the Os Maias kept, in this passage on TV much of their condition of a great literary work.