Structures narratives, du roman au film : La mort de Charles Forestier, lecture d’une scène-clé de Bel-Ami
Narrative Structures, from the Novel to the Film: Charles Forestier’s Death, Analysis of a Key-Scene in Bel-Ami

Narrative Structures, from the Novel to the Film: Charles Forestier’s Death, Analysis of a Key-Scene in Bel-Ami

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes the relationship between literature and cinema, through a case study: Maupassant’s most famous novel, Bel-Ami, and its cinematographic adaptations. In order to obtain solid results, the focus is put on a key-scene in the text, namely Charles Forestier’s death. This scene is situated in the core of the action, at the end of the first part, and it marks the beginning of Georges Duroy’s social ascension. The paper describes how this key-scene passed from the novel to some cinematographic or TV adaptations, signed by directors such as Willi Forst, Alfred Lewin, Philippe Triboit, Declan Donnellan & Nick Ormerod. In the novel, as well as in the films, the narrative structures are based on four main pillars (the narrative voice, the time, the space, the rhythm), studied here in their peculiar functioning.

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