THREE BERRY PRESERVE

"Bernado’s film now exists. If the reader has already seen it, although much closer to the film than the first version, is not at all what is termed a novelisation.That is deliberate. And perhaps I can explain why by way of a whimsical little analogy. If one wears dark grey trousers, let’s say, and a jacket which is also grey, but not exactly the same grey, the result looks awkward and inelegant, almost as though one were hoping to pass the ensemble off as a suit. Far better to wear a jacket in a different colour altogether. So with a novel and its cinematic adaptation. So, too, with my novel and Bernado’s film. They may be twins but – just like my own fictional siblings, Théo and Isabelle – they’re not identical."

- Gilbert Adair, 2003 (The Dreamers)

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