Literary Appropriations in Antichrist, by Lars von Trier

Abstract

Our aim is to show in which way the film Antichrist (2009), by Lars von Trier, might be analyzed by focusing in its literary appropriations. We shall enhance, thus, the relations the film establishes with the aesthetic elaborations and some works by August Strindberg and Bertolt Brecht. We also intend to inquire how the study of the point-of-view presented by the film would enable a reading dissonant from the ones the film has received, and how literary criticism tools would make it possible to point, in the work, an ideological trap central to its interpretation.