Inventando la realidad: La adaptación como un juego autorreferencial en „El autor” (2017), de Manuel Martín Cuenca
Inventing the reality: The adaptation as a self-referential game in Manuel Martín Cuenca’s „The Motive” („El autor”, 2017)

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to analyse Manuel Martín Cuenca’s film The Motive (El autor, 2017) in the context of self-referential games and relationships between reality and invention. The director, adapting Javier Cercas’s short novel The Motive (El móvil, 1987), reflects also on the proximity between cinema and literature. In the film The Motive images of literary creation are mixed with cinematic metaphors. The reality invented by the film’s characters becomes a metafiction and is part of a game that involves the spectator, a characteristic feature of new narrative strategies in contemporary cinema. However, in this case, the meaning of game, concretized in the film’s diegesis as chess, goes beyond the ludic dimension and becomes a way of exposing the paradoxes of creation.

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