Kaufman, as you probably know, is the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, and Being John Malkovich, and the director of experimental indies Synecdoche, New York, Anomalisa, and, most recently, I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Kaufman’s first novel adaptation). The duo were yesterday announced as the helmers of Amazon Studio’s feature adaptation of The Memory Police and people (read: people in the Lit Hub office) are excited. Beautifully translated by Stephen Snyder, The Memory Police is a deeply disturbing read, full of intimate interactions and piercing insight centered on a novelist. Given the subject matter, Ogawa probably couldn’t ask for a better filmmaking team to bring her elegiac fable to the big screen than Charlie Kaufman and Reed Morano. Yoko Ogawa’s dystopian tale of a woman living on an island where the clinical and ruthless Memory Police make objects ‘disappear’ was inspired by the diary of Anne Frank. As if all that wasn’t enough, it seems the Japanese author’s American debut is now headed to Hollywood.
Yōko Ogawa’s acclaimed surrealist novel-the story of a young woman, struggling to maintain her career as a writer on a island where objects are disappearing, who concocts a plan to hide her endangered editor from the Memory Police-was one of the sleeper hits of 2019, garnering rave reviews, a National Book Award nomination, and an American Book Award. The Memory Police by Yko Ogawa review sinister allegory An island community facing disappearances, not only of objects but of complete concepts, makes for an unsettling novel Alex Clark.
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