num_pages: 336
description: 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 "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.
language: English
title: The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography
titlecomplete: The Magic Lantern: An Autobiography
genres: Sweden, Autobiography, Film, Media Tie In, Biography Memoir, Swedish Literature, Biography, Memoir, Nonfiction, Art
ratings_count: 3064
publisher: Penguin Books