The Magic Lantern

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THE MAGIC LANTERN
by Ingmar Bergman
Translated by Joan Tate
For Ingmar Bergman, memories and writing are a mixture of pain and joy. This honest and revealing book is a most unusual autobiography, and a remarkable literary achievement.
Ingmar Bergman, world famous for his prodigious output of imaginative and beautiful films and alsó internationally known as a theatre, television and opera director, was born in 1918. The child of a strict Lutheran parsonage upbringing, he was part of an extended family, which he later depicted in his film, Fanny and Alexander. Since his deeply disturbing childhood, he has found it difficult to separate dreams from reality. He values above all the world of the imagination, which haunts us in his writing and his films.
In The Magic Lantern he explores the nature of love and friendship, the enclosed world of the actor and his audience, the delicate and indeed loving relationship between director and actor. Bergman's turbulent inner life is... Tovább

Fülszöveg

THE MAGIC LANTERN
by Ingmar Bergman
Translated by Joan Tate
For Ingmar Bergman, memories and writing are a mixture of pain and joy. This honest and revealing book is a most unusual autobiography, and a remarkable literary achievement.
Ingmar Bergman, world famous for his prodigious output of imaginative and beautiful films and alsó internationally known as a theatre, television and opera director, was born in 1918. The child of a strict Lutheran parsonage upbringing, he was part of an extended family, which he later depicted in his film, Fanny and Alexander. Since his deeply disturbing childhood, he has found it difficult to separate dreams from reality. He values above all the world of the imagination, which haunts us in his writing and his films.
In The Magic Lantern he explores the nature of love and friendship, the enclosed world of the actor and his audience, the delicate and indeed loving relationship between director and actor. Bergman's turbulent inner life is con-stantly illuminated; and he is often harshly critical. This is not a comfortable book, but it is never for one single moment uninteresting. As well as his parents, his marriages, affairs and many children, exile and homecoming, he writes candidly about his colleagues - Charlie Chaplin, Greta Garbó, Ingrid Bergman, Laurence Olivier, Herbert von Karajan, Liv Ullmann.
The Magic Lantern is the opposite of the bland, name-dropping, ghosted autobiography. Published in the year of Bergman's seventieth birthday, this ex-ceptional memoir is personal, uncompro-mising and beautifully constructed.
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