Unfilmable novels

it's filmable, but it would be a bad film.

>>79802269
But the audience would die.

anything by Vonnegut. They tried, but it was awful

>>79802367
doubt they would show The Entertainment, just people glued to a tv screen

has there ever been a decent movie adapted from a post modern novel?

>>79802453
Yea ur mum

>>79802453
Catch 22 but that's like PoMo lite

>author's name written bigger than the title of the book itself

How full of yourself must you be?

>>79802257
Why is it undulmkable?

>>79803821
I don't think he designed that cover, anon

>>79803821
it's ironic

>>79803821
The book itself isn't that great. People interested in literature read it because the book is famous for being a difficult read with lots of references to literature itself. It's more of an initiation to the club than a good story.

>>79802453
Depends if you think Cloud Atlas was good.

>>79803821
Kek, that's the publisher's idea. DFW took a paycut so that people overseas would pay the same as Muricans which was p. cool but led to riots in India when the Rupee was single handedly debunked by its translation.

>>79802257
Infinite Jest is only unfilmable because it would be unwatchable.

Now get your ass back to /lit/ and pretend to be an author or a philosopher and post pics of your bookshelf.

>>79803821
What are you talking about? Her name is smaller than the title and covered by the clouds, you can barely see it?

House of Leaves

And no cheating by just doing the Navidson Record

>>79802453
Inherent Vice was good, just weird.

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I guess this sort of qualifies. You sure as fuck couldn't make it anything like the novel. Since most of the humor is based on the contrast between what the main character says and does and what he's actually thinking and planning to do, you would have to rely on some really excessive voice over narration, coupled with the fact that the main character is deliberately written to be unlikeable, I don't see how you could do it and not have it be fucking terrible.

>>79803942
Whenever it's brought up that if one had unlimited resources what movie would one adapt from a book or vidya? This is always fucking mine. I'd figure it out, y'know, unlimited resources and all.

>>79802453
>infinite jest
>postmodern
It's some bizarre post-post-modern if anything

Does any of his other works have the feel good vibe of the Don Gately, Hal or Mario bits. Or just recommend anything else that feels similar?

>>79804498
>post-post-modern
When will this meme die

>>79804498
Lmao, DFW literally killed himself because everyone thought he was a postmodernist and he felt he was a fraud

>>79802453

Inherent Vice was alright. It's a shame they cut out the subplot in Vegas.

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>>79803942
Just got my copy signed

>>79802257
It's called The Royal Tenenbaums

>>79804920
I haven't read it, but isn't the idea that it was focused on some kind of sincerity not seen since modernism?
Is that just a meem?
Is the whole book a meeeeeemm?

>>79803879
which book are you talking about?

OP's pic is Infinite Jest. it's really long, but it's really funny and, besides jumping around in time and between different characters and the footnote stuff, is very easy to read.

think of it like reading three very accessible books. you will enjoy it as you read it. you will not care about the story being wrapped up or paying off.

if you want a book that tries to do what IJ does, but sucks dick at it, try "Underworld" by Don Delillo. I read it before I read IJ. I was wondering what I was supposed to be getting out of it. I thought the problem was with me. Then I read Infinite Jest, and loved every page of it, and realized what a fraud Don Delillo is.

>>79806448

That's a big Z

>>79806934
DeLillo is a massive fraud and reading White Noise made me realize it. It's style is utterly feckless and reads like the ramblings of a beatnik lacking both drugs and poverty.

>>79806582
In one of his non-fiction essays he talks about how future generations are going to rebel against post-modernism by being more sincere since post-modernism will become the norm.

Infinite Jest is still by all means post-modern lit.

>>79806934
Haven't read Underworld yet but White Noise and Libra are both great.