George Langelaan - the Fly

PROLOGUE

I have chosen this short story, because it seemed quite an interesting story, and as it has multiple screen adaptations, I thought it wouldn’t be a problem to find fifteen websites dealing with it. Unfortunately I was wrong with the second part. The story was very interesting, I enjoyed every minute of reading, although I’m not really into reading. After I finished it, I started to search for websites, and I realised soon, that the only useful one is on Wikipedia. Unfortunately almost all the reviews, references are about the movie remakes, I only found some mentions and comments on the book, so I didn’t have enough material to write this essay.

So at last I came up with the idea, that if there are so many websites about the movies, then I should watch them, after that write my own ideas about the story itself and compare it with its screen adaptations, how these directors rethought it and how these movies give back the feeling of reading it.

It’s not exactly wanted from me, but I think the aim of it is the same, to read literary works, analyse them, work with them, and write down our ideas. I hope it will be good enough.

WEBSITES

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fly_(George_Langelaan) (8.5.2011)

This was the best website from all; it has the date and place of publishing, a plot summary, list of adaptations, and at the end honours and references. The plot summary is well written, there’s nothing important left out.

2. http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread60003/pg4 (8.5.2011)

This is a website about science fiction topics, it’s not literature related, but there’s a comment related to The Fly, which I found quite funny.

3. http://www.museumstuff.com/learn/topics/George_Langelaan::sub::Short_Stories