The Unfilmables: A List of the Hardest Novels to Film
From The Unfilmables: A List of the Hardest Novels to Film: “Below are what I consider to be the most difficult novels to adapt, and who, if any, is fit to do that job.”
From The Unfilmables: A List of the Hardest Novels to Film: “Below are what I consider to be the most difficult novels to adapt, and who, if any, is fit to do that job.”
Also, Pale Fire, The Recognitions (and J.R.), and anything Henry Miller.
As to the “any Pynchon novel” - I don’t think there’s anything exceedingly unfilmable about Vineland. It actually reads like a movie in a lot of ways. Not that I’d really want to see it run up on a screen, of course, but I don’t think it’d be impossible.