Wood on Current Fiction

[MalignD at aol.com]

<<One could also argue that Coover's statement is stupid. Think about it, what novel can't be filmed?>>

I like Coover's formulation better that Woods's, other than the word "never," speaking, as it does, to the issues both of art and commerce.  And, although it's probably true that any novel can be filmed (and although there is always the possibility of someone brilliant waiting to prove you wrong), it's difficult to see how some novels could be equalled or improved in filming it, which I assume is at least part of Coover's point -- one art form losing ground to another for one or more of a variety of reasons.  A film of The Unnamable? 

On the other hand, had Coover his way, we wouldn't have the Godfather movies.