Subject:
[Tidbits]: Strindberg and Nabokov's two eternities of darkness"
From:
"jansymello" <jansy@aetern.us>
Date:
Tue, 28 Aug 2007 15:32:07 -0300
To:
<nabokv-L@listserv.ucsb.edu>

Dear List,
 
Reading about recently deceased Ingmar Bergman I came across a sentence by Strindberg ( A Dream Play) openly quoted in Bergman's "Fanny and Alexander" and which also a inspired "Wild Strawberries". It made me remember VN's opening paragraph in SM, on the cradle that rocks over the abyss...
 
 "Time and space do not exist. Upon an insignificant background of real life events, the imagination spins and weaves new patterns; a blend of memories, experiences, pure inventions, absurdities and improvisations."

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