The Magic Lantern is as personal and penetrating as a Bergman film, wry, shadowy, austere.”- New Republic “Joan Tate’s translation of this book has delicacy and true pitch. Many gripping revelations.”- New York Times Book Review “ has found a way to show the soul’s landscape . Ambitious in scope yet sensitively wrought, The Magic Lantern is a window to the mind of one of our era’s great geniuses. Throughout, Bergman recounts his life in a series of deeply personal flashbacks that document some of the most important moments in twentieth-century filmmaking as well as the private obsessions of the man behind them. 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 includes five wives and more than a few mistresses.
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. The article also shows how Bergman benefited from the achievements of the American anti‑psychiatry movement and how his literary texts fit into wider cultural contexts in the tradition of melancholy, carnivalesque and abject writing.“When a film is not a document, it is a dream. The somatic, psychic and psychosomatic insecurities of the narrator not only occupy a central place here, but they are also one of the basic themes of the Swedish director’s whole oeuvre (they appear, for instance, in the related narrative of Fanny and Alexander). Following a slew of Swedish commentators, the article shows the problematic nature of reading Bergman’s text autobiographically, instead focusing on numerous representations of the body and illness.
Summary/Abstract: The article attempts to show the work of Ingmar Bergman, in particular his 1987 quasi‑autobiography The Magic Lantern, from the perspective of the medical humanities. Jerzego Grotowskiego Keywords: medical humanities Ingmar Bergman somatoaesthetics abject disease
Demons and the Body: Ingmar Bergman’s “The Magic Lantern” from a Somatopoetic Perspectiveĭemons and the Body: Ingmar Bergman’s “The Magic Lantern” from a Somatopoetic Perspective Author(s): Jan BalbierzĬontributor(s): George Lisowski (Translator)
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