The celebrated Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges is yawned offstage as Osberg, a contriver of "mystico-allegoric anecdotes.
It has none of the widening allegoric vision of a Langland or a Bunyan.
Made in 1953, two years before Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night summed up his ironic discussion of the domestic predicament, A Lesson in Love lacks the assurance and allegoric .