Towards a Transmedial Reception of a Novel and its Film Adaptation: Santiago Roncagliolo's La pena máxima

Authors

  • Erwin Snauwaert KU Leuven Campus Bussels
  • Lara Delchambre KU Leuven Campus Brussel

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.20254411541

Keywords:

Reception, Imagology, Transmediality, Santiago Roncagliolo, La pena máxima

Abstract

Santiago Roncagliolo’s La pena máxima (2014) explores the link between football and national identities in Peru and Argentina, highlighting how their totalitarian regimes used the 1978 World Cup to improve their reputations. Given that this novel was adapted for the cinema (Michel Gómez, 2022), the question arises of how these problematic national images are reproduced in the movie and how they are interpreted by the critics for both media in Peru. Unlike the reviews of the novel, those that focus on the film concentrate on the formal aspects and do not delve as deeply into the social and political implications of the plot. In this way, the reception not only seems to be influenced by the medium to which it refers, but also ends up shaping the national images themselves.

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Published

2025-07-26

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How to Cite

Snauwaert, E., & Delchambre, L. (2025). Towards a Transmedial Reception of a Novel and its Film Adaptation: Santiago Roncagliolo’s La pena máxima. Tropelías: Review of Literary Theory and Comparative Literature, 44, 275-290. https://doi.org/10.26754/ojs_tropelias/tropelias.20254411541