Claim to Oblivion

Literary Nonfiction. Are you still wondering who is that boy at the beginning of Bergman's Persona and what the damn movie is all about? And what is the point of those near-silent seven minutes at the end of Antonioni's L'Eclisse? And what happens if you break the rules that Shklovsky thinks are the foundation of prose? And how would The Great Gatsby sound if written in super short sentences? And what about that big 450 page-long joke of a book Three Blondes and Death that was more than 20 ...