Sunday's Children by Ingmar Bergman

Sunday's Children by Ingmar Bergman

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.

INGMAR BERGMAN (1918 - 2007) was one of the world's great film-makers. The son of a Lutheran pastor he worked in the theatre before directing his first film, Crisis, in 1945. His powerful films are often marked by bleak depictions of human loneliness, although one of them, Smiles of a Summer Night, was the basis of Stephen Sondheim's celebrated musical A Little Night Music.

JENNY WORTON is the Artistic Associate at the Almeida Theatre. She was previously the literary manager at the Tricycle Theatre and worked for the literary departments of the Bush Theatre and the National Theatre.

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ISBN 13	9781559702447
ISBN 10	1559702443
Title	Sunday's Children
Author	Ingmar Bergman
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Arcade Pub
Year published	1994-03-24
Number of pages	153
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