Literary Adaptations

Prospero’s Books (1991) – Peter Greenaway

Oddly enough, I’m very interested in literary adaptations when most other book-lovers seem skeptical of them, which is understandable. Naturally, being a different medium, it cannot replicate the experience one gets from reading a text, yet if done well can create a whole new one. To myself, I see essentially two different types of book-to-film transformations. ‘Translations’ which are concerned mainly with adhering to the...