Zona: A Book About a Film about a Journey to a Room

Notes

There are some unacknowledged quotations and misquotations in the text. Sources for these are listed here, along with the ones that were conventionally presented.

‘THE WORST OF HIS FILMS,’ etc.: interview with Maria Chugnova in Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.

‘A RING AT THE DOOR’: Edmond and Jules de Goncourt, Pages from the Goncourt Journals, edited by Robert Baldick (New York: NYRB Classics, 2007).

‘IF THE REGULAR LENGTH’: quoted by Vladimir Goldstein in Nathan Dunne (ed.), Tarkovsky.

‘A LITTLE MORE DYNAMIC’: quoted by Evgeny Tsymbal in Dunne, ibid.

‘I THINK THAT’: Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time.

‘NINETY MINUTES OF SITTING’: Richard Price, Clockers (London: Bloomsbury, 2003; first published 1992).

‘THE WORLD OUTSIDE’: Anne Applebaum, Gulag: A History (New York: Doubleday, 2003).

‘A WAY OF LIFE’: Tony Judt,Postwar (London: Heinemann, 2005).

‘THE SOVIET REPRESSIVE SYSTEM’: Applebaum, Gulag.

‘HE’S SUCH A’: Mick Jagger, quoted in Peter Doggett, There’s a Riot Going On (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2007.

‘TOTALLY OUT OF IT’: Vladimir Sharun, interview at nostalghia.com.

‘A MAN’S WORK’: Albert Camus, Selected Essays and Notebooks (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984).

‘MEN SWAGGERING INTO SALOONS’: Don DeLillo, Libra (New York: Viking, 1988).

‘A BOOK ABOUT NOTHING’: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert 1830–1857, edited by Francis Steegmuller (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1980).

‘RIGHT IN THE EYES’: Roland Barthes, The Responsibility of Forms (New York: Hill and Wang, 1985).

‘DID NOT MAKE SOLARIS’: Stanislaw Lem, quoted in Robert Bird, Andrei Tarkovsky: Elements of Cinema.

‘ON THE THRESHOLD’: Roberto Calasso, K. (New York: Knopf, 2005).

‘SOMEONE EMBARKS’: Billy Collins, Sailing Around the Room (New York: Random House, 2001).

‘BEGAN TO MAKE FILMS’: Ingmar Bergman, quoted in Rerberg and Tarkovsky: The Reverse Side of ‘Stalker’ (film).

‘USING SOME OF HIS TYPICAL’: Wim Wenders, The Act of Seeing (London: Faber & Faber, 1997).

‘TO BEGIN TWO CONSECUTIVE’: Anthony Hecht, quoted in Christopher Ricks, True Friendship (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010).

‘HAPPY THE HARE’: The English Auden, edited by Edward Mendelson (London: Faber & Faber, 1977.

‘MAKE VISIBLE WHAT’: Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer (London: Quartet Books, 1986).

ROAD TRIP: I got the story about Tarkovsky and the road trip through Utah from Tom Luddy himself. It is broadly corroborated by Zanussi’s reminiscences in Marina Tarkovskaya (ed.), About Andrei Tarkovsky: Memoirs and Biographies.

‘THE UNHOMELY’: Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000).

‘RASHIT, THE FLOWERS’: Georgi Rerberg in Rerberg and Tarkovsky: The Reverse Side of ‘Stalker’ (film).

AN AMAZING PLACE…IS NORMAL HERE: slightly adapted from Roberto Calasso, Ka (New York: Knopf, 1998).

‘PUTTING ITSELF IN A PERSONAL RELATION’: William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature (New York: The Modern Library, 1999; first published 1902).

‘SOBBING UNCONTROLLABLY’: J. M. Coetzee, Diary of a Bad Year (London: Harvill Secker, 2007).

‘THIS IS WHAT EXISTS’: Max Frisch, quoted in Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Civil War (London: Granta, 1994).

ROBERT POLIDORI and JONAS BENDIKSEN: see, respectively, Zones of Exclusion (Göttingen, Germany: Steidl, 2003) and Satellites (New York: Aperture, 2006).

‘WHAT CONFERS ON IT’: Slavoj Žižek, ‘The Thing from Inner Space’. It seems there are various different versions of this essay floating around. The one quoted from here can be found at http:// www.lacan.com/zizekthing.htm (September 1999).

‘THEY FED IT’: for German original, see The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, edited by Stephen Mitchell (New York: Vintage International, 1989). Translation by Shaun Whiteside.

SCIENTISTS WHO CARRIED OUT: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/ science-environment-10819027.

‘BEYOND A CERTAIN POINT’: quoted in Roberto Calasso, K. (New York: Knopf, 2005). This translation suited me better than Michael Hofmann’s in Zürau Aphorisms (New York: Schocken, 2006).

‘FEEL…THAT THE ZONE’: Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time.

‘ONCE I WAS A MAN’: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception (London: Routledge Classics, 2002,).

NOT A SET OF EVENTS: adapted from David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous (New York: Vintage, 1997). I am indebted to Abram more generally for my discussion of the Zone and the sudden gust of wind in this section.

‘HAS NO MEANING IN ITSELF’: Milan Kundera, Immortality (London: Faber & Faber, 1991).

‘SHOULD DOUBT…THE EXISTENCE’: Tarkovsky, interview with Guerra at nostalghia.com.

‘THE IMAGE BECOMES’: Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time.

‘OVER AND OVER’: Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews, edited by John Gianvito.

‘A LIFE OF WHICH THE KEYNOTE’: William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience.

‘SUDDENLY ONE OF’: Vladimir Sharun, interview at nostalghia.com.

‘TOTAL DISASTER’: Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.

‘A RIGID IDEA’: Evgeny Tsymbal in Dunne, Tarkovsky.

‘EVERYTHING IS GOING TO BE DIFFERENT’: Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.

‘HE COULD NOT UNDERSTAND’: Vladimir Sharun, interview at nostalghia.com.

‘KALASHNIKOV REFUSED’ and ‘HE DIDN’T HAVE THE GUTS’: Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.

‘ALMOST VISUALLY IDENTICAL’: Maria Chugunova, quoted by Tsymbal, in Dunne, Tarkovsky.

‘LACKED SIMPLICITY’: Ibid.

‘LIGHTWEIGHT SHALLOW PEOPLE’: Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.

‘FOR BEHAVING LIKE A BASTARD’: Ibid.

‘BUT AT THE COST’: from Rerberg and Tarkovsky: Reverse Side of ‘Stalker’ (film).

‘A CORPSE’: Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.

‘INVINCIBLE’: Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews, edited by John Gianvito.

‘YOU ARE DISTINGUISHED’: Alexander Galich, quoted in Lesley Chamberlain, Motherland (London: Atlantic, 2004).

‘THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT’: Robert Bird, Andrei Tarkovsky.

‘THERE REALLY IS’: Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, Roadside Picnic (London: Gollancz, 2007; translation first published 1977).

‘UP THE RIVER’: Vladimir Sharun, interview at nostalghia.com.

‘TO EVERY NATURAL’: Wordsworth, from The Prelude: A Parallel Text, edited by J. C. Maxwell (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972).

‘I SEE AROUND ME’: The Selected Poetry and Prose of Wordsworth, edited by Geoffrey Hartman (New York: Signet Classics, 1970).

‘THE THEN IS CONSTANTLY REPEATED’: Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain (New York: Vintage, 1996).

‘SOME KIND OF DRUG DEALER’: Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.

‘WHERE ART IS DYING’: Milan Kundera, Encounter (London: Faber & Faber, 2010).

‘IF AT THE END’: quoted in Robert Bird, Andrei Tarkovsky.

‘EVERYTHING ON EARTH’: Ibid.

‘PERHAPS WE ARE HERE’: for German original, see The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke, edited by Stephen Mitchell. Translation by Shaun Whiteside.

‘CAME TO FEEL’: Lesley Chamberlain, Motherland.

‘IN THE RIVER’: Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews, edited by John Gianvito.

NOTHING ON THE WALLS BUT DAMP: adapted from Wislawa Szymborska’s poem ‘Cave’, in Poems New and Collected 1957–1997 (London: Faber & Faber, 1999).

‘UTTERLY NEW TERRAIN’: Wim Wenders, The Act of Seeing.

‘THE DARKNESS GREW LOUD’: William Langewiesche, American Ground: The Unbuilding of the World Trade Center (New York: North Point, 2002).

‘SHOOTING IS GOING OUT’: Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer.

‘I SAW TARKOVSKY’S STALKER’: Tilda Swinton, http://www.movie line.com/2009/05/tilda-swinton-i-think-youve-got-the-wrong-person.php.

‘THERE OUGHT TO BE IN PARIS’: Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographe.

‘FROM WHERE ELSE’: John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous (Harmondsworth: Granta, 1992).

‘ENTIRE LIFE HAS CONSISTED’: Tarkovsky, quoted in Robert Bird, Andrei Tarkovsky.

‘SUBSEQUENT FILM’: Tarkovsky, Time Within Time.

‘I’M REDUCED TO’: Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time.

‘A TEST’: (‘that results in a man either withstanding or breaking. Whether a man survives or not depends on his sense of individual worth, his ability to distinguish what is important from what is transitory.’): Tarkovsky, quoted in Robert Bird, Andrei Tarkovsky.

‘AN INFINITE, IF DANK ENCLOSURE’: David Thomson, Have You Seen…? (London: Allen Lane, 2008).

‘THE BELIEVER WILL OPEN’: Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity (New York: Pantheon, 1951).

‘IS FAITH IN HOPE’: Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life (New York: Dover, 1954).

‘PEOPLE WILL DO ANYTHING’: Carl Jung, Psychology and Alchemy (London: Roudedge & Kegan Paul, 1953).

‘THE EYE WANTS TO SLEEP’: James Tate, ‘Absences’, Selected Poems (Manchester: Carcanet, 1997).

‘MY DISCOVERY’: Ingmar Bergman, at nostalghia.com.

‘EVERY TIME IT WAS’: Safiullin, interview, bonus extra, on Stalker DVD.

‘THE GREATER THE DEGREE,’ ETC.: Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir, translated by Max Hayward (London: Harvill, 1999; first published 1971).

‘THE POINT OF ROOMS’: Don DeLillo, White Noise (London: Picador, 1985).

‘EACH ONE OF US’: John Berger and Nella Bielski, A Question of Geography (London: Faber & Faber, 1987).

‘I COMPLETELY AGREE’: Tarkovsky, from an interview with Aldo Tassone at nostalghia.com. Translated slightly differently in Andrei Tarkovsky Interviews, edited by John Gianvito; ‘THE ZONE DOESN’T’: interview with Laurence Cossé, ibid.

‘EVERYTHING, AFTER PASSING THROUGH’: Miguel de Unamuno, Tragic Sense of Life. (In the English edition — translated from the Spanish — the first use of ‘film’ is given as ‘cinematograph show’; hence the change!)

‘THE EXCELLENT ACTING OF THE DOG’: Kenzaburo Oë, A Quiet Life (London: Picador, 1998).

‘PLANTS AND ANIMALS’: Bélas Balázs, quoted in Robert Bird, Andrei Tarkovsky.

‘POSING’: Donatas Banionis, quoted in Bird, ibid..

‘FANTASTIC DOG’: Knyazhinsky, interview, bonus extra, on Stalker DVD.

‘ONLY THAT WHICH’: Tarkovsky, interview with Guerra at nostalghia.com.

‘MAKE THE OBJECTS LOOK’: Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer.

‘FINAL MIRACLE’: Tarkovsky, Sculpting in Time.

‘TOO SELFISH’: Philip Larkin, ‘Wild Oats’, Collected Poems (London: Faber & Faber, 1988).

‘A RUSSIAN ANGEL’: Olga Surhova, quoted in Rerberg and Tarkovsky: The Reverse Side of ‘Stalker’ (film).

‘HERE YOU LIVE’: Rashit Safiullin, interview, bonus extra, on Stalker DVD.

‘THANKS TO TARKOVSKY’S’: Vladimir Sharun, interview at nostalghia.com.

‘ONE OF THE GLASSES’; Kenzaburo Oë, ‘The Guide (Stalker)’, in A Quiet Life.