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

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.