Free Zona by Geoff Dyer

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 InnerSpace’. 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