Publisher's Synopsis
A medieval knight wagers a game of chess with Death, hoping to stay alive long enough to discover the meaning of life. But what does Death hope to gain? "THE SEVENTH SEAL: The Lost Faust on the Road to Modernity" sends the Archetypal Eye into Ingmar Bergman's classic film to examine the 400-year crisis of modernity. Along the way it will discover the quartet of gods at the core of Bergman's imagination, one of the most unlikely marriages in the archetypal universe, the nature of existential sentimentality, the place in the psyche where the messiah complex is born, and a new possibility for Faust and Mephistopheles to continue their journey through history.
