Enfeebling Fables: Weak Allegory in Les Carabiniers and The Silence
“If Godard reveals what Benjamin calls ‘the beauty’ of recognizing that twentieth-century art has to become more than a parable, Bergman offers a vision of ‘the misery’: the desperate, impossible effort to find some kind of truth in a text that offers only transmissibility.”


Marianne Kaletzky lives in Oakland, California, and is a graduate student in comparative literature at Berkeley, where she studies Victorian and Modernist novels as well as film. Before coming to Berkeley, she worked for a newspaper in Santiago de Chile, at a documentary film production firm in Berlin, and as a high school English teacher in New Orleans.





