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Here Is Where We Meet
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2007; US$ 15.00One of the most widely admired writers of our time returns us to the captivating play and narrative allure of his previous novels? G. and To the Wedding among them?with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life.One hot afternoon in Lisbon, the narrator finds his long-dead mother seated on a park bench. ?The dead don?t stay where they... more...
Selected Essays of John Berger
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 21.00The writing career of John Berger?poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayist?has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Berger?s seminal essays. Berger?s insights make it impossible to look at a painting,... more...
Hold Everything Dear
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 14.00From one of the most impassioned of writers of our time, this powerful collection of essays offers a stark portrait of post-9/11 realities. John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmmaker, poet, philosopher, novelist, and essayist, he is also a deeply thoughtful political activist. In Hold Everything... more...
The Shape of a Pocket
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 16.00The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the New World Economic Order. The people coming together are the reader, me, and those the essays are about?Rembrandt, Paleolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient Egyptians,... more...
About Looking
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95As a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, powerful critique of the canons of our civilization. In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see. How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us... more...
A Fortunate Man
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 13.95In this quietly revolutionary work of social observation and medical philosophy, Booker Prize-winning writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr train their gaze on an English country doctor and find a universal man--one who has taken it upon himself to recognize his patient's humanity when illness and the fear of death have made them unrecognizable... more...
Another Way of Telling
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 21.00"There are no photographs which can be denied. All photographs have the status of fact. What is to be examined is in what way photography can and cannot give meaning to facts." With these words, two of our most thoughtful and eloquent interrogators of the visual offer a singular meditation on the ambiguities of what is seemingly our straightforward... more...
To the Wedding
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.00A blind Greek peddler tells the story of the wedding between a fellow peddler and his bride in a remarkable series of vivid and telling vignettes. As the book cinematically moves from one character's perspective to another, events and characters move toward the convergence of the wedding--and a haunting dance of love and death. From the Trade Paperback... more...
Sense of Sight
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 16.00With this provocative and infinitely moving collection of essays, a preeminent critic of our time responds to the profound questions posed by the visual world. For when John Berger writes about Cubism, he writes not only of Braque, Léger, Picasso, and Gris, but of that incredible moment early in this century when the world converged around a marvelouis... more...
Pig Earth
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95With this haunting first volume of his Into Their Labours trilogy, John Berger begins his chronicle of the eclipse of peasant cultures in the twentieth century. Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of skeptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women; of calves born and pigs slaughtered; of summer haymaking... more...









