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We call them "the girl" or "me", "mother" and "father": if we did not know that Linn Ullmann wrote this novel, we could hardly conclude that Narrator's parents a famous couple are: director Ingmar Bergman and actress Liv Ullmann, unforgettable by many of his films (such as "Scenes of a Marriage", "Persona" and "Autumn Sonata").
And if they were not, "The Troubled", appeared in German in Luchterhand, would be almost as useful to read – as a story of a mother-daughter relationship and a father-daughter relationship. This trio, after only a few years of family dissolution, never really exists. The artist-mom stays alone with the child, suffers from being too mother-to-be, runs away to the cellar in front of the hanging child. She is considered disgusted because she is not enough with the child – never the father.
"They were children themselves," writes the author, renowned in her country, about her parents "who sit as children In 1995, following the death of Bergman's last wife, Ingrid von Rosen, the distressed man, always surrounded by caring women, will say: "I'm 74 years old and I'm deciding only now"
Many clichés of the impressionist mosaic subtly Composed are formulated in phrases such as: "When mom and dad were lovers in the 1960s, Mom's face was so bare that there was almost no face. "Or the scene in which the maniac punctual father is 17 minutes late -" and everything was as always and nothing more than before. "
This is the sign that it is with the Vat it goes down." In 2007, the girl from Bergman's house talks to her on tape – a book about him for sure. But the memories have largely left the 90s At the end, he has music, especially Bach's When the girl wants to know what love means to the father, he does not want to answer but he does: crying over these sounds, he feels more alive, he says – and puts on Schubert's "Winterreise." (sim)
("Die Presse", print edition, 16.07.2018)
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