After detouring back into fiction (ostensibly) with "Jeff in Venice," the very good Geoff Dyer returns to his exploration of the chronicle form with "Zona: A Book About a Film About a Journey to a Room." To be released February 21 in the United States, it is concerned with the themes of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 science fiction film "Stalker." In the book, Geoff Dyer attempts, according to the publicity material, "to unlock the mysteries of a film that has haunted him ever since he first saw it thirty years ago. As Dyer guides us into the zone of Tarkovsky’s imagination, we realize that the film is only the entry point for a radically original investigation of the enduring questions of life, faith, and how to live." It is a narrative, the publicist assures us, "that gives free rein to the brilliance of Dyer’s distinctive voice, acute observation, melancholy, comedy, lyricism, and occasional ill-temper."
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