Abstract

SUTTON, Sara. Narrar la imagen: The Pillow Book. Acta poét [online]. 2007, vol.28, n.1-2, pp.367-378. ISSN 2448-735X.

The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, written in the 10^th century, is the text that inspires Peter Greenaway to film The Pillow Book. Nevertheless, the text of the book appears differently through the lens of the camera. Nagiko, the principal character of the film, is a passionate reader of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon who discovers that writing could not be reduced to a literary resource. After the death of her beloved father, governed by the stroke that he painted on her face each birthday, she gets on the trace to find the ideal lover: the one that will be at the same time a sublime lover and a great calligrapher that will paint her body. But the story of the film is the less important thing, because the cinematographic language appears here like another way of writing, another way of speech that does not subjugate to the logic of an alphabetic text, but transform the character into an image: there are not just words that tell a story, but images that make sense in the context of a scene.

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