Zona (17 page)

‘
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.

I would like to thank Mark Cousins, Tom Luddy and Chris Mitchell for reading an early version of the manuscript and making helpful suggestions and corrections. I am particularly grateful to Tom for furnishing me with information about Tarkovsky’s trip to Telluride.

A few passages from this book first appeared, in very different form, in the
Guardian.
I am grateful to Michael Hann for commissioning and publishing that piece.