Eternal Sunshine Kafka Beckett Lewis Carroll Thomas Pynchon

[pynchonoid]

[...] If Eternal Sunshine has any artistic ancestors,
they lie less in the lean and linear world of typical
movie screenplays than in the dense, surreal depths of
cult fiction. It evokes Kafka and Beckett, Lewis
Carroll and Thomas Pynchon, and especially the
reality-warping science-fiction author Philip K. Dick,
whose works, heavily diluted, provided the blueprints
for Blade Runner, Total Recall and Minority Report. It
is no coincidence that Kaufman loves Dick’s bleak
satirical style, and has even written an unfilmed
adaptation of his novel, A Scanner Darkly. More
surprisingly, he has no unfinished books of his own
lurking in his bottom drawer. “I think about it often,
but I don’t even have anything started,” Kaufman
shrugs. “It’s been a very busy five years for me, and
quite overwhelming, so there hasn’t been time.” [...] 

from:
Times Online
April 24, 2004 
Send in the clones
The enigmatic screenwriter Charlie Kaufman unveils
another alter ego in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless
Mind. Stephen Dalton meets the man himself . . .
probably
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,7943-1085332,00.html>


	
		
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