Time Within Time (seagull)

Time Within Time, both diary and notebook, covers the years from 1970until Tarkovsky's death, in 1986. Intimate, intense and deeply personal, it answers many of thequestions which his admirers would like to ask. There are reflections onDostoevsky, Tolstoy, Hesse, Mann; quotations from Seneca, the Desert Fathers,Henry Thoreau, Nabokov; plans for films and letters. He writes of his family, inparticular of his poet father, Arseniy Tarkovsky, whose poems are part of hisfilms; of his delight in his wooden house in the countryside, of his joy in hiswife and his little son. Haunting dreams are recorded in detail. He speaks ofthe state of society, the future of art; there are harsh - often funny - remarksabout the bureaucrats in charge of the Soviet cultural scene in general andcinema in particular (he gives the text of his letter supporting Paradzhanovwhen the latter was arrested). He noted significant world events and purelypersonal dramas along with fascinating background details of the making of hisfilms. Also included in this volume are the plans and notes for his stageversion of Hamlet; a detailed proposal for a two-part film of Dostoevsky's The Idiot; and a glimpse of the more public Tarkovsky answering questions put to himby interviewers and an interested audience.