Time Within Time, both diary and notebook, covers the years from 1970 until Tarkovsky’s death. Intimate, intense and deeply personal, it answers many of the questions which his admirers would like to ask. There are reflections on Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Hesse, Mann; quotations from Seneca, the Desert Fathers, Henry Thoreau, Nabokov; plans for films and screenplays; lists and letters. He writes of his family, in particular of his poet father, Arseniy Tarkovsky, ...