SATYAJIT RAY THE INNER EYE

Preface to the Second Edition i SATYAJIT RAY THE INNER EYE The Biography of a Master Film-Maker Andrew Robinson ii The Inner Eye New edition published in 2004 by I.B.Tauris & Co Ltd 6 Salem Road, London W2 4BU 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 www.ibtauris.com In the United States of America and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan a division of St. Martin’s Press 175 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10010 First published in 1989 by André Deutsch Limited Copyright © 1989, 2004 Andrew Robinson The right of Andrew Robinson to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patent Act 1988. All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or any part thereof, may not be reproduced, stored in or introduced into a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. ISBN 1 86064 965 3 A full CIP record for this book is available from the British Library A full CIP record is available from the Library of Congress Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: available Typeset by ITS, Edinburgh Printed and bound in Malaysia by SRM Production Services Sdn. Bhd. Preface to the Second Edition iii For Krishna and for my parents iv The Inner Eye ‘The eye, which is said to be the window of the soul, is the primary means by which the brain may most fully and magnificently contemplate the infinite works of nature . . .’ Leonardo da Vinci ‘All great civilisations have been based on loitering.’ Jean Renoir ‘I do not put my faith in any new institutions, but in the individuals all over the world who think clearly, feel nobly and act rightly.They are the channels of moral truth.’ Rabindranath Tagore ... - tailieumienphi.vn