According to Maurice Blanchot, the homeric episode that depicts Ulisses’ strategy to hear the sirens avoiding theirmortal danger can be considered as a paradigmatic narrative for all western literary tradition. Franz Kafka wrotetwo little alternative versions of this episode that are considered here as paradigmatic narratives about the cinemaand its audience, in two alternate possibilities – silent and sound films. The greimasian semiotic square will then beused to elaborate the generative component of cinema as a double articulation of images and sounds with gaze andvoice as objects.
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