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Abstract

This article will analyze the fi lm adaptation of the novel The colonel has no one to write to him, written by the eminent Colombian author, Gabriel García Márquez and brought to the screen by the Mexican fi lmmaker Arturo Ripstein. Investigating the differences and similarities between both texts, literary and fi lm, will establish how the transformation of a novel to a fi lm works, how a text that uses written language can be presented in another that uses audiovisual language