/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12612329]

>movies get remakes
>video games get remakes
>music gets covers
Why doesn't anyone ever remake literature?

[Anonymous No.12612341]

>>12612329
>what is fan fiction

[Anonymous No.12612342]

>>12612329
because literature is still the most advanced genre and reboots would kill it completely, thats exactly what will happen in the next decade

[Anonymous No.12612358]

Oh, but they do anon

[Anonymous No.12612359]

>>12612329
They do, ya dip

[Anonymous No.12613227]

Retellings are pretty common.

[Anonymous No.12613270]

>>12612329
>movies get remakes
>video games get remakes

technologically based so they get 'updated' to confrom to current consumer standards. Can't really happen in books (apart from updating the language to contemporary usage which often happens in translations)

>music gets covers
Performative art (at least as separated from musical composition) so multiple performances make sense. In the same sense you can have different productions of a play, doesn't really make sense for literature does it?

[Anonymous No.12613423]

>>12612329
They get remakes and retellings and modernizations all the fucking time.

[Anonymous No.12613452]

All works of literature are retellings of The Epic of Gilgamesh.

[Anonymous No.12613466]

>>12612329
Arthurian legends, Robin hood, etc. have been remakes since it's shrouded beginnings until the modern era.

[Anonymous No.12613546]

>>12612329
>What is Romeo and Juliet

[Anonymous No.12614043]

There's Meursault Contre-enquete that came out a few years ago as a response to Camus' L'Etranger which was an interesting idea and read.

[Anonymous No.12614045]

>>12612359
>>12613452
These guys get it.

[Anonymous No.12614079]

Literature is too smart for remakes.
The brain heads figured out the idea of the pastiche. Not the lazy jew method of remake

[Anonymous No.12614094]

>>12612329
They do.

[Anonymous No.12614098]

>>12612358
Oh just kill me

[Anonymous No.12614101]

>>12613270
this

[Anonymous No.12614131]

Literature remakes the style, not the content.
This is what separates the patrician from the plebe

[Anonymous No.12614174]

>>12612329
Good point.

[Anonymous No.12614220]

>what is Shakespeare
>what is Faust

[Anonymous No.12614233]

>>12612329
Check out 'Ulysses' by James Joyce. It's a remake of some old Greek thing

[Anonymous No.12614236]

>implying literature hasn't been a retelling of the same few stories for millenia

[Anonymous No.12614258]

>>12612329
One of the best novels I read was The Monk, rewritten by Antonin Artaud. Some people say t's a translation, but apparently it's only half the length of the original. Looks like a rewriting, with only the plot being similar (not sure to what extent), and extraordinary prose.
I wish more writers did this instead of just going all 'fuck the plot'.

[Anonymous No.12614269]

>>12612329
Some guy completely rewrote "The Night Land" by William Hope Hodgson in an attempt to make it easier to read.

https://www.amazon.com/Night-Land-Story-Retold-ebook/dp/B004GKNM3W

[Anonymous No.12614275]

>paradise lost
>Shakesoeare’s Romeo and juliet, rape of Lucrece
>literally any Greek mythological plays or poetry
>Shaw’s Androcles and the Lion
>Medieval mystery plays

[Anonymous No.12614314]

>>12612329
But we literally do

[Anonymous No.12614318]

>>12614275
>Shakespeare's Romeo and Rape
Most of his works were 'remakes' in that same vein ya dip

[Anonymous No.12614329]

>>12614318
can you point out to me where it says that list is supposed to be exhaustive?

[Anonymous No.12614334]

It gets “remade” when the language becomes “obsolete” and hard to understand.
So for example, you have retellings and rewritings of The Canterbury Tales into Modern English.
Or how the Nibelungenlied has to be refitted to be understandable in Modern German.

[Anonymous No.12614343]

>>12614329
Yes I can

[Anonymous No.12614381]