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Pu Bergman is eight years old when Mother rents Pastor Dahlberg’s ramshackle house for the summer. Pu is a Sunday’s child—one said to be endowed with special gifts of sensitivity, clairvoyance, and the ability to see ghosts.
As the novel opens, Pu’s heart is full of anticipation as he goes to the train station to greet his father. When Father arrives, he is strangely distant, melancholy, and severe. Over the next twenty-four hours, Pu’s world is marked indelibly. In beautifully realized set pieces that reveal the Bergman family landscape and culminate in a train trip Pu and his father take together, Pu encounters death and the infirmities of aging, is humiliated by his terrorizing older brother, dwells on ghost stories the servants tell, and witnesses the painful arguments between his parents.
A series of “flashbacks to the future” enriches our understanding of the relationship between man and boy, as a much older Ingmar Bergman visits his ill and dying father, bringing the novel full circle. In his review of the film made from Sunday’s Children, Vincent Canby called the story “gorgeous, richly poignant . . . Not since Wild Strawberries has Mr. Bergman dealt with time in a way that is simultaneously quite so limpid and so mysterious.”
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"Because every line is saturated with juice, with the sense of life, you feel, in addition to life as it is, life as it ought to be." --John McGahern
"In words, as in cinematic images, Bergman shapes settings and characters that immediately come alive and subtly express the depths of human emotion and experience."
"A Nobel for Ingmar? He deserves one many times over."
Because every line is saturated with juice, with the sense of life, you feel, in addition to life as it is, life as it ought to be. --John McGahern
In words, as in cinematic images, Bergman shapes settings and characters that immediately come alive and subtly express the depths of human emotion and experience.
A Nobel for Ingmar? He deserves one many times over.
"In words, as in cinematic images, Bergman shapes settings and characters that immediately come alive and subtly express the depths of human emotion and experience."
"A Nobel for Ingmar? He deserves one many times over."
Because every line is saturated with juice, with the sense of life, you feel, in addition to life as it is, life as it ought to be. --John McGahern
In words, as in cinematic images, Bergman shapes settings and characters that immediately come alive and subtly express the depths of human emotion and experience.
A Nobel for Ingmar? He deserves one many times over.
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- PublisherArcade Pub
- Publication date1995
- ISBN 10 1559702923
- ISBN 13 9781559702928
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