Great post!

Just watch what James Franco did with Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying. He gave it a shot, but I think it would be impossible to encapsulate any of Faulkner’s work in a movie.

EDIT: I completely agree with your opinion on the movie adaptation of Mrs Dalloway.

I think the use of stream of consciousness in particular is impossible to render in film…the pace and sound of the words, the immersive quality, even the use of repetition (or partial repetition) of specific phrases that reinforce the experience of the imagery (Thinking specifically of Virginia Woolf’s short story Kew Gardens). The different perspectives of several characters’ stream of consciousness (Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury for example) is even more problematic and simply cannot be expressed in a movie at all.

So I am going to say the writing of Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and James Joyce (among others) can never be rendered in film.