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The Magic Lantern : an Autobiography by Ingmar Bergman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Magic Lantern : an Autobiography about?
Bearing all the narrative trademarks of a Bergman film, his autobiography unfolds not in strict chronology, but as a series of flashbacks to his childhood of bitter unhappiness: "our family", he writes "were men and women with a catastrophic heritage of excessive demands, bad conscience, and guilt". Bergman also tells of the experiences of fear and occasional idyllic happiness that caused his adult unhappiness and self hatred. From Publishers Weekly Bergman's magic lantern (representing both memory and a toy cinematograph he obtained as a child) swings backward and forward between his early life in Lutheran parsonages and his experiences as an internationally renowned director of films, plays and operas. Ignoring strict chronology, it explores his relations with his parents and older brother, his introduction to the theater, his successes and failures, and his decision (after Fanny and Alexander ) to stop making films. Bergman, having always suffered from a nervous stomach and chronic insomnia, also candidly acknowledges his weaknesses and fears, frightening dreams and bouts of temper, his infatuation with Hitler and Nazism during the 1930s and his obsession with sex, as well as t
Who reads The Magic Lantern : an Autobiography?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ingmar Bergman
- Publisher
- Penguin (Non-Classics)
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780241121474
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sports, Literary Fiction, Memoir
- Rating
- 4.07 / 5 (11 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
