The Unfilmables

Screenhead has compiled a list of novels that would be nearly impossible to adapt to film. Some have never been tried. Some have been made with disastrous results. Some bad novels have been made into good films (almost all of Hitchcock's movies); and some, such as Jane Austin's works, are quite easy to adapt. But the works on this list would challenge even the best filmmakers. Among them:

• Ulysses, by James Joyce
• Cat's Cradle, by Kurt Vonnegut
• 100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Marquez
• Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
• Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger
  

Screenhead does suggest directors who might be the only ones capable of pulling off each adaptation, should anyone be foolhardy enough to try.