Are book remakes a thing? Has an author ever remade their own book?

>>9294538
>Has an author ever remade their own book?
don't know about that, but steven fry (poorly) remade the count of monte cristo

keller rewrote, rearranged and republished "green henry" under same title after it had already been circulating on mass market for decades.

>>9294538
chuck palahniuk re-released invisible monsters as invisible monsters remix

A lot of what Shakespeare wrote was a remake.

Edward Albee also rewrote "Zoo Story" and forbade people from putting on the original 60's version.

>>9294538
In a way, yes.
How many times has Faust been retold?

>>9294538
Walt Whitman did

>>9294579
the folklore story has been told several times. that's not the same as a remake of a book.

>>9294579
like 5 or 6 my dude

>>9294538
Alessandro Manzoni remade The Betrohed three times, each version with a different style/language

Stephen King is essentially republishing the same book over and over again with slight variations of the story

>>9294538
Antonin Artaud translated The Monk, written by Lewis but he confessed that he didn't consider himself as a good english speaker and the translation is often seen as a book by Artaud.

>>9294538
John Fowles revised The Magus and John Barton revised The Sot Weed Factor after they were phblished.

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>All these examples that obviously don't fulfill what OP is asking for
>No one mentions one of the most famous 20th century playwrights known for this very thing
Why am I not surprised /lit/?

>>9294644

Dan Brown is doing that too, but you can't call his books remakes if nothing is actually changed.

>>9295157
Beckett is overrated

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>>9294538
God wrote the Bible three times

>>9294538
The heanryad of Shakespeare is a gritty multipart remake/franchiseaztion of an earlier play.