TRANSFORMATION OF MEANINGS BY DINO BUZZATI’S NOVEL “THE SECRET OF THE OLD WOODS” IN THE FILM OF THE SAME NAME BY ERMANNO OLMI

Abstract

The work studies transformation of meanings of Dino Buzzati’s novel “The Secret of the Old Woods” in the film of the same name by Ermanno Olmi. The purpose of the work is to explain the semantic changes in a verbal text as a result of intersemiotic translation. To highlight the distinctive features of the original and new texts and compare them, semiotic analysis is necessary. Film interpretation of verbal text is carried out at the levels of composition, narrative, character system, and genre. The translation process in this case is determined by the heterogeneity of the material of the two arts. The formation of the meaning of a new text occurs in a dialogue of different semiotic systems, which does not always involve finding exact analogues in verbal and cinematic languages. Upon completion of the study, the inevitability of semantic transformations of a literary text translated into the language of cinema is recognized.