Side benefit of too much TV: We live in literary times GlobeArts
Already we have seen how an original, expansive approach to Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale has made for extraordinary television.For all the moaning and wailing that is heard daily about this digital age and short attention spans, we live in literary times.One Hundred Years of Solitude
for TV. The classic novel will be turned into a Spanish-language original series for the streaming service with the support of Marquez’s family. Marquez himself never allowed the rights to the work to be optioned for a film as he couldn’t see how it could be done. Well, things change. There is every reason to believe, as the author’s sons do, that the talent in writing and direction required to turn the father’s novel into an estimable TV series exists right now. An adaptation of the novel’s sprawl through seven generations of the Buendia family and all of it steeped in the magical-realism genre, is not going to intimidate anyone involved or the audience.
Coming in May from Hulu, and airing on a Rogers service in Canada, is a multipart adaptation of Joseph Heller’s, a novel of huge complexity in its shifting planes of logic and insanity. A movie version made by Mike Nichols in 1970 caught only a portion of the book’s impact. Over six hours – I’ve seen two and they are exceptionally good – the adaptation is far more likely to do justice to the book, in full.
It’s not all peachy, of course, and sometimes it is the mediocre books that make for the best TV. Nobody is going to attach the tag “literary masterpiece” to the fantasy novels by George R. R. Martin that form the basis of, last year’s HBO series adapted from the early Gillian Flynn novel. As a novel, it was far from literary by most standards.
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