"Meta-reflexive" Literary Works in Contemporary Cinema: Challenges of "Unadaptability"

The film adaptation of literary works is a practice in modern culture. Some of them are considered by some critics and readers to be the most difficult to transfer to a screen, such works are often called "unadaptable". In this paper I describe the concept of "unadaptability" and approaches to its study, and also analyse the structural elements of literary works that make them so difficult to transfer to a different medium. It is important to note that we are not talking about the translation of these elements into the language of the cinema, but about finding a medial equivalent within the medium itself. The urgency of the work is that such a widespread practice of referring to a primary source created in a different medium (in this case a book) is an important part of modern culture, and the analysis of this practice in terms of " unadaptability " affects a wide enough field of general aesthetic questions about the interpenetration of mediums and works created within their framework, as well as questions about medial specificity and transmedial transfer.