Eugene Archer calls this work an "answer to the widespread theory that modern civilization is incapable of producing tragedy."
Eugene Archer calls this work an "answer to the widespread theory that modern civilization is incapable of producing tragedy." He also calls this work's narrator an emotional voyeur, as when the narrator looks through a window in a dream at a woman playing piano while being caressed by her husband. The narrator's mother says that her only fault is that she does not die before examining with empty nostalgia a doll. The introversion of the narrator is shown in the first line of this work, "In our relations with other people we mainly criticize them." A stop at a Caltex leads to an encounter with the Ackermans, who propose to name their child after the narrator. The love triangle between Sara, Anders, and Victor reminds the narrator of his lost youth. This work's name is a Swedish idiom for a place with sentimental value. For 10 points, name this film in which the old man Isak Borg examines his life while on a road trip, a film by Ingmar Bergman.
Eugene Archer calls this work an "answer to the widespread theory that modern civilization is incapable of producing tragedy."
Wild Strawberries [or SmultronstÃ¤llet]