Volume 35, Number 16 · October 27, 1988
The Pearl Fisher
By John Osborne
The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography
by Ingmar Bergman, translated by Joan Tate
Viking, 308 pp., $19.95
Ingmar Bergman is a rare breed indeed: a director who has had a popular song written about him. He has also written an extraordinary, turbulent autobiography, The Magic Lantern. It received a rather sniffy dismissal when it was published in England some months ago. Perhaps because of its densely emotional kaleidoscopic shape or, more likely, because of the downright seriousness with which he attempts to define his own creative impulse and process.
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