Tabla de Contenidos:
  • In search of a metaphor: in place of an introduction
  • Magic lantern (projection). A text in performance ; Shadows only ; Pregnant moments ; An attempt in the dramatic field
  • Lanterns and lanternists. Laterna magica ; Citizen Robertson ; The fantasmagoria ; Rainbow (refraction). Unweaving the rainbow ; The meteorological cycle ; From allegory to ... allegory ; Magic made simple, or do-it-yourself ; Addison and his pleasures
  • The limits of imitation. Apelles and his lines ; Camera obscura ; The child of Thaumas
  • Garden of memory (reflection). The keys to Zvanka ; Beatus, my brother ; Essay on man ; The art of memory ; A peculiar vision: approaches to the text
  • Nine views. Pleasures of imagination ; Choral vision ; Stanzas of solitude
  • The poet's house. The bard lived there ; Zvanka's echo ; Pindar, Derzhavin, and the 1920s: in place of a conclusion.