List of Modernized Retellings of Old Stories - Novels

Novels

  • Dorian, an Imitation by Will Self – Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • Tam Lin by Pamela Dean – "Tam Lin" relocated to a college in early 1970s Minnesota
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    All middle-class novels are about the trials of three, all upper-class novels about mass fornication, all revolutionary novels about a bad man turned good by a tractor.
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    The present era grabs everything that was ever written in order to transform it into films, TV programmes, or cartoons. What is essential in a novel is precisely what can only be expressed in a novel, and so every adaptation contains nothing but the non-essential. If a person is still crazy enough to write novels nowadays and wants to protect them, he has to write them in such a way that they cannot be adapted, in other words, in such a way that they cannot be retold.
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    Primarily I am a passionately religious man, and my novels must be written from the depth of my religious experience.
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