#the saga of gosta berling

[silentagecinema]

beauty in the 1920s

[allgarbo]

Greta Garbo in The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924)

[itsborhes]

Greta Garbo in Gösta berlings saga, 1924

[gatabella]

Greta Garbo Photographs and Clippings From Her Desk

A group of four photographs, two postcards, and six clippings regarding Greta Garbo's career. These items were found in Garbo's desk after her passing. The photographs include a black and white silver gelatin print taken on the set of The Saga of Gosta Berling (Svensk Filmindustri, 1924) and an image of Garbo as Mata Hari with her head torn from the image. The clippings are images from various publications and a partial letter from The International Who's Who requesting a revision to Garbo's entry.

[s-memorando]

Libri di ottobre

Questo mese non ho letto moltissimo per i tanti impegni che si sono susseguiti. I libri mi sono arrivati da molte parti, credo di aver detto che faccio parte di alcuni circoli di lettura, altri libri li ho letti per mio uso personale. Madeline Miller: “La canzone di Achille“. Suggerito dal gruppo “Una sera un libro” del Gruppo Scrittori Firenze. Selma Lagerlof: “La saga di Gosta Berling“.…

[lastchancevillagegreen]

So, how much did I enjoy Paul Murray's insanely creative 700 page novel The Bee Sting? Enough to buy his earlier works, that's how much. I used to see the book Skippy Dies and think, "I'd never read a book called that!" Guess again, brilliant boy!

Murray has written four novels. His debut, 2003's An Evening of Long Goodbyes, is already out of print in the US, so I had to go to eBay and buy it from the UK. I found a dealer who was charging the same price for shipping as he was for the book, so that was reasonable. Then there is 2010's Skippy Dies and 2015's The Mark and The Void. Were I not in the middle of my second Birchbark House book I'd leap right into Skippy Dies, another messy book filled to overflowing with characters that consumes 700 pages!

The game plan is to finish the Birchbark House series (or as many of the quartet of books as I possibly can by Saturday night) and then leap back into Zola on Sunday. His 600 page Germinal about coal mining is bound to be harrowing and it will consume all of my day as I attempt to read 100 pages of Zola a day for a week. Then I'll finish whatever remains of Birchbark and then it is right into Skippy Dies!

But reading game plans are as mercurial as my moods. I've a stack of new books I'm excited to read: Pilar Quintana's The Abyss, DH Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover, Alison MacLeod's Tenderness (a fictional account about the censorship battle over Lady Chatterley's Lover involving Jackie Kennedy--evidently based on actual events surrounding Kennedy's love for the novel and her role in getting it to the US uncensored) and of course, the final four Émile Zola novels I had hoped to finish in 2023. Whether that happens or not remains to be seen. Because somewhere I have to fit in The Crimson Petal and The White (a 900 page behemoth recommended to me by a God's Jukebox mate) and The Saga of Gosta Berling by Selma Lagerlöf, the first woman to ever win the Nobel Prize for literature. Then there are the two books by Diana Athill from one of my favorite presses, New York Review Books as well as two more books forthcoming next week from them!

And let's not forget, there are three remaining Book Club books left on the year, only one of which I want to read (Take My Hand by Dolen Perkins-Valdez which is highly praised by another favorite modern author, Celeste Ng). Then come December all the current members of Book Club will pick a new group of books to read. Our attendees number eight at the moment, not counting Alix or Ty, the two librarians who are suddenly co-hosting the group. I'm the only original member left, how is that possible? I'm the guy who quits everything!

For thinking just four weeks ago I was through reading, I realize now I just needed a break. I looked through my records over the last two decades and it seems about every four to five years I often take a one to two month break from reading before leaping back into it with a crazed obsession. That crazed obsession might just be here again.

[coffeeandcinema]

Gösta Berlings saga (1924). dir. Mauritz Stiller

[zahut]

“I see the green earth covered with the works of man or with the ruins of men’s work. The pyramids weigh down the earth, the tower of Babel has pierced the sky, the lovely temples and the gray castles have fallen into ruins. But of all those things which hands have built, what hasn’t fallen nor ever will fall? Dear friends, throw away the trowel and mortarboard! Throw your masons’ aprons over your heads and lie down to build dreams! What are temples of stone and clay to the soul? Learn to build eternal mansions of dreams and visions!”

― Selma Lagerlöf, Gösta Berlings Saga (Introduction by George C. Schoolfield, trans. Paul Norlen)

[mizworldofrandom]

The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924)

[monstrousdaughter]

does anyone have a link for a version of The Saga of Gosta Berling with English titles or subtitles in a quality higher than 480p? 👀

[ordinaryeternalmachinery]

Tell them that you know there is no salvation in concealment! The demons love the darkness. May your judges' hands wrap themselves around the scourge! The punishment will fall like comforting balsam on the wounds of sin. Your heart longs for suffering.

GOSTA BERLING’S SAGA by selma lagerlof

[nofatclips]

Ornament and Crime by Gösta Berlings Saga

[allgarbo]

Greta Garbo and Mona Mårtenson in The Saga of Gösta Berling (1924)

[vampsandflappers]

VAMPSANDFLAPPERS: Silent film actress Mona Mårtenson as Ebba Dohna in the 1924 Swedish film THE SAGA OF GOSTA BERLING.

[jgthirlwell]

playlist 3.30.17

Mikel Kuehn Object Shadow (Bandcamp) Mac Quayle Mr Robot OST (Lakeshore) Scott Walker The Childhood of a Leader OST (4AD) Magma Retrospectiw I & II (Seventh) Tristan Murail C’est iun jardin secret (Accord) Roedelius / Hausswolff Nordlicht (Curious Music) Lawrence English Cruel Optimism (Room 40) Kelly Moran Bloodroot (Bandcamp) Gosta Berlings Saga Sersophane (Icosahedron Music) Steve Hauschildt Tragedy and Geometry (Kranky) Andrew Toovey Red Icon (Largo) John Zorn Magick (Tzadik) Various Artists Text/Sound compositions Stockholm 1971-1974 Volumes 8-11 (Fylkingen)

[itsborhes]

Greta Garbo, Torsten Hammarén Gosta Berlings saga (1924)