O bom ladrão

vingança e crítica social na série Lupin

Abstract

This article analyzes the Lupin series (Netflix, 2021) by comparing the character Assane Diop, from the audiovisual narrative, with Arsène Lupin, from the literary fiction written by Maurice Leblanc, in the early 20th century. It seeks to understand how the adaptation refashions the narrative and provides, through a hero, in the new version, with senegalese ancestry, the debate of contemporary social issues in dialogue with the context of reception. The results show how the theme of revenge, which structures the plot, serves seriality, and provide a critique of social invisibility and inequality and of prejudice against immigrants in France today.