A obra Kafkiana em Resident Evil: Revelations 2: leitura, imersão e interatividade através dos games

Abstract

The present work investigates and analyzes the electronic game Resident Evil: Revelations 2 (2015) and its relationships with the work and life of the writer Franz Kafka. For this, we verified the points of convergence between the game and the literature of the aforementioned writer, highlighting the visual and textual elements that make up these relationships and that contribute to the construction of a new narrative that resignifies the literary canon in the digital-electronic support. At first, we discuss the remediation properties of games (BOLTER & GRUSIN, 2000), as well as the particularities of the Kafkaesque narrative (BLANCHOT, 2011). Then, we draw a dialogue with the theory of adaptation (HUTCHEON, 2011) and with the foundations of intersemiosis (PLAZA, 2013), as we consider that it is essential to establish an analytical awareness that satisfactorily supports the nature of videogames as an essentially multimodal and interactive art form. Thus, we propose a thematic analysis of the adaptation, taking into account narratological elements of the game, such as space, time, plot and characters, with a strong emphasis on the books “In the penal colony”, “Contemplation”, “The Judgment” and “The Metamorphosis”. Finally, we argue about the influences of the digital-electronic support for the formation of new categories of reading, as well as about the postures of the readers/players, which give a new meaning to the literary canon in post-modernity.