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Like such otherwise di verse works as Godard's Contempt and Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, The Spider's Stratagem concerns the workings of myth, the complicity of fancy and legend in history. The screenplay is an extrapolation from a short fiction by Jorge Borges, Theme of...
In Borges, the researcher becomes an accomplice to the fiction; in the Bertolucci adaptation, he becomes a vic tim of it. Borges' "oppressed and stubborn country" becomes Tara, a fictional village in the Po Valley, a place of old men and tenacious memories. The great-grandfather becomes a father...
Bertolucci, like Borges, deliberately omits any explanation for the hero's initial treachery. Author and director both are interested not so much in the act itself as in its effects. The measures taken to mask the incident become a paradigm of the process of myth. Bertolucci suggests the perpetual...
Confucianism was the very foundation of that society. A basis for religion, ethics, philosophy and statecraft, it seeks a complete interpretation of events. It holds that there is one and only one correct way to do things. The book tells the story of an American government professor in Saigon whose...
If the stories of Labyrinths and Ficciones, then, bestowed a keen sense of reality upon the fantastic, those of Borges' latest "voice" do the opposite: bestowing a sense of the fantastic upon what might very well be real. The old Borgesian fragmentation and permutation of time and of "fact" turn...