Човекът, който се смее – между думите и образите (Виктор Юго – Паул Лени – Джеръм Д. Селинджър)
The Man Who Laughs – Between Words And Images (Victor Hugo – Paul Leni – Jerome D. Salinger)

Summary/Abstract: The article develops a consistent comparison between a characteristic 19th-century novel (Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs), its film interpretation by Paul Leni, and a story by Jerome D. Salinger with the same title, at the center of which is placed an action that represents (or only reminds) of a retelling of a film. The study observes Victor Hugo’s novel in its potential to integrate into the narrative a multitude of different contingent worlds, which it connects on the basis of a vivid romantic iconography. In the 1920s, cinema consciously aimed at developing this iconography, renewing through its means the possibilities of the film medium. Salinger’s story is indicative of the complex impact and broad transformations in the perceptive consciousness that this secondarily literate medium is able to achieve.

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