The Ironic Secret Adapteur: Hitchcock and Hampton adapting Conrad’s The Secret Agent
Rodrigo Alonso Lescún
The Ironic Secret Adapteur: Hitchcock and Hampton adapting Conrad’s The Secret Agent
The adaptation of the same literary work may give birth to extremely different cinematic products. Written by Joseph Conrad in 1907, the novel The Secret Agent inspired three cinematic adaptations. Here I shall be focusing on the concepts of authorship and adaptation when dealing with the analysis of two of these adaptations: Sabotage (1936) by Alfred Hitchcock and The Secret Agent (1996) by Christopher Hampton. The frontier between one and the other will be given by the use of irony, the element which articulates the narratological structure of the novel.
“I don’t suppose there’s any novelist except Conrad who can be put directly on screen”
Orson Welles
"My task (…) is, by the power of the......
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