When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that dizzy sense of magic of my childhood. Bergman, who has conveyed this heady sense of wonder and vision to moviegoers for decades, traces his lifelong love affair with film in his breathtakingly visual autobiography, The Magic Lantern. More grand mosaic than linear account, Bergman s vignettes trace his life from a rural Swedish childhood through his work in theater to Hollywood s golden age, and a tumultuous romantic history that...
When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that ...
On Midsummer's Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby commune. On her journey through the deep forest, she sumbles upon the site of a grisly double murder--a crime that will remain unsolved for nearly twenty years, until the day Annie sees her grown daughter in the arms of one man she glimpsed in the forest that eerie midsummer night.
Like Gorky Park and Smilla's Sense of Snow, Blackwater is a unique trhiller in which the hearts and minds of the characters are as strikingly...
On Midsummer's Eve, 1974, Annie Raft arrives with her daughter Mia in the remote Swedish village of Blackwater to join her lover Dan on a nearby co...
First published in Sweden in 1976, Children s Island increased the popularity and critical acclaim of its author, P. C. Jersild. The novel, which has sold more than400,000 copies in Sweden alone, has been translated into French, German, Dutch, and Czechoslovakian. A film was made out of it. The University of Nebraska Press is the first to make available in English a book in some ways reminiscent of J. D. Salinger s The Catcher in the Rye.
Children s Island is told from the point of view of a ten-year-old boy, Reine Larsson, who succeeds in not going to summer...
First published in Sweden in 1976, Children s Island increased the popularity and critical acclaim of its author, P. C. Jersild. The novel, whi...
Dea Trier Morch depicts with uncommon skill an experienec that pays no attention to language differences or national boundaries: childbirth. Set in a maternity ward for difficult cases, her novel is unique in focusing on the weeks immediately before and after delivery. While December gives way to the new year the women enocunter the private anxieties and mysteries of motherhood, sharing a profound sense of solidarity and warmth in the midst of winter.Joan Tate's superb translation of the European best-seller introduces Dea Trier Morch to American readers. Morch, the author of five other books...
Dea Trier Morch depicts with uncommon skill an experienec that pays no attention to language differences or national boundaries: childbirth. Set in a ...
"Exterminate All the Brutes"is a searching examination of Europe s dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad sHeart of Darknessas his point of departure, Sven Lindqvist takes us on a haunting tour through the colonial past, interwoven with a modern-day travelogue. Retracing the steps of European explorers, missionaries, politicians, and historians in Africa from the late eighteenth century onward, the author exposes the roots of genocide in Africa via his own journey through the Saharan desert. As Lindqvist shows, fantasies not merely of white...
"Exterminate All the Brutes"is a searching examination of Europe s dark history in Africa and the origins of genocide. Using Joseph Conrad s...
