Neištikimoji

by Ingmar Bergman, Zita Mažeikaitė (Translator)

Šią knygą, vadinamą romanu, sudaro trys scenarijai: "Neištikimoji", "Dvasiniai reikalai", "Meilė be mylimojo". Pirmąjį jų ekranizavo garsi I.Bergmano filmų aktorė, režisierė Liv Ulman. Tai romanas apie menininko pasaulį, tikrovės ir meno santykį, pasibaigiantis šeimynine katastrofa. "Dvasiniai reikalai" - dramatiškas vienos moters monologas, pasibaigiantis jos išprotėjimu. Trečias kūrinys - savotiškas kaleidoskopas, fragmentiškas scenarijus niekad nepastatytam filmui.

Mėgstantiems klasikinę prozą, psichologinę analizę, žmogaus sielos tyrinėjimus, pavargusiems nuo šiuolaikinės prozos įkyraus margumo ir marginalumo I.Bergmano knyga tikrai patiks. Nors pats autorius "Neištikimąją" apibūdina gana keistai: "Visą savo profesinį gyvenimą buvau įsitikinęs, kad galiu sukurti ilgo metražo filmą, kurį iš esmės sudarytų tik vienas stambus planas".

240 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Ernst Ingmar Bergman was a nine-time Academy Award-nominated Swedish film, stage, and opera director. He depicted bleakness and despair as well as comedy and hope in his explorations of the human condition. He is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in cinematic history.

He directed 62 films, most of which he wrote, and directed over 170 plays. Some of his internationally known favorite actors were Liv Ullmann, Bibi Andersson, and Max von Sydow. Most of his films were set in the stark landscape of his native Sweden, and major themes were often bleak, dealing with death, illness, betrayal, and insanity.

Bergman was active for more than 60 years, but his career was seriously threatened in 1976 when he suspended a number of pending productions, closed his studios, and went into self-imposed exile in Germany for eight years following a botched criminal investigation for alleged income tax evasion.

Reviews

[Pavel · Rating 3 out of 5]

The first "performance" (Föreställningar means "performances") in this volume is Trolösa, Faithless. I don't know if it was meant to be plural faithless or singular faithless in the title, but since all three main characters are faithless, I guess plural. I'm doubting, because "three main characters" is a big wrench. As it was often with Bergman's work, the novel is really about a woman, she is the focal point of the story. Middle-aged actress with happy successful family - husband, conductor at the opera, and daughter, weird and clever. And there is a family friend, director, who is struggling with his life. And at some point an affair starts between Marianne, the actress, and David, the friend, This is where Ingmar Bergman was the strongest: to navigate us through all the tortures, self-tortures, and tortures of conscience, and tortures of each other that his characters put themselves through and do that with such a power of truth, that no doubt is left - he tells something about his personal life. Maybe that's the case, indeed. Trolösa is dedicated to "Lena och Liv". And there's a film made of this text. Marianne was played by actress Lena Endre, and Liv Ulmann was directing. The movie is awful by the way, white-blooded, static and very theatrical. It has all ingredients of Bergman's cinema, except one - his director's talent. Liv Ulmann was one of the greatest actresses of XX century, she never should try to replace Bergman in his chair.

Second "performance", En själslig angelägenhet (A spiritual matter) is a radio monologue of an ageing XIX century upper-class actress. She is on a verge of a breakdown and ends up in mental hospital. This piece was written in 1972. Perhaps it was attempt to create a movie consisting of a single close up - Bergman mentioned his desire to create such film several times. But it never happened as a movie, only as a radio monoplay. I didn't enjoy this one. A rant of a drinking lady with money who is going crazy. Not jumping out of skin for such stories, even the best in the genre, like Ibsen's A Doll's House. Maybe formal bounds which Bergman laid on himself here - single close-up movie - fouled up some initial conception he had. Or maybe radioplay genre is dead and I just don't understand it today, in 2015. Either way, not Bergman's summit for sure.

The third performance Kärlek utan älskare (Love with no lover) is, perhaps, only full-scale script between three texts. It was written during Bergman's exile in Germany and tells a story of a film director Marco Hoffmann, who has disappeared, but left dozens of reels of his unfinished film. The script is a combination of editor Anna Bergman's attempts to put the film together, producer's hate speeches and manipulations and the film itself, which is very weird. And the script ends very weirdly itself, but I won't spoil. It never made into a film and as a predatory note by Bergman says, it was refused by several film companies. Small wonder, cause it's so openly against money and commerce in cinema it wouldn't attract anyone even today.

[Ingrida Lisauskiene · Rating 3 out of 5]

64-oji XX a. Aukso fondo knyga. Trečioji švedų kino režisieriaus, dramaturgo ir prozininko knyga, įtrauktą į šią knygų seriją. Nors vadinami pasaulinio lygio šedevrais, trys šioje knygoje pateikti kūriniai man atrodė silpniausi. Trys istorijos: "Neištikimoji" - stabdartinė meilės trikampio tarp draugų istorija, visiems trikampio dalyviams pasibaigianti blogai; "Dvasiniai reikalai" - psichikos liga sergančios moters pasaulio suvokimas; "Meilė be mylimojo" - psichodelinės kūrybos pavyzdys, vaizduojantys menininko pasaulį, jo aistras, kūrybinius ieškojimus, nesėkmes.

[matilda haze · Rating 4 out of 5]

1 Mes nugrimzdom į nerūpestingą letargiją.

2 Štai, ko tu ieškojai : čia - galutinė tiesa. Niekas toji tiesa.

3 Žmogaus gebėjimas pergyventi savo katastrofas yra sunkiai suvokiamas.

4 ..šitas žmogus yra moralinė katastrofa..

5 Jis pradėjo bodėtis savo meniškai brandaus suvokimo.

6 Sako, kad pasaulis pamišęs, o ne jis.

7 Šiaip ar taip, aš norėčiau supanašėti su mane supančiu pasauliu.

[Agnė Pačekajė · Rating 4 out of 5]

Antras bandymas skaityti Bergmaną ir visai vykęs. Patiko pjesės forma, kad visi trys kūriniai tokie skirtingi, patiko pasirinkti vaizdavimo kampai. Labai patiko antrasis kūrinys, iš juoko ašaras išverkiau.