John Berger Selected Essays

Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays will, for the first time, take a definitive look at his extraordinary career.Far from being footnotes to the main body of work Berger's essays are absolutely central to it. Many of the ideas of the groundbreaking Ways of Seeing were presented first in essays published in New Society. Polemical, reflective, radically original, Berger's wide-ranging essays emphasise the continuities that have underpinned more than 40 years of tireless intellectual inquiry and political engagement. Viewed chronologically they add up, in fact, to a kind of vicarious autobiography and a history of our time as refracted through the prism of art. Edited by Geoff Dyer, and published on the occasion of his 75th birthday, this is an essential collection by one of the world's greatest writers.

ISBN:	9780747554196
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Imprint:	Bloomsbury
Published date:	19 Nov 2001
DEWEY:	828.91408
DEWEY edition:	21
Language:	English
Number of pages:	588
Weight:	942g
Height:	232mm
Width:	153mm
Spine width:	46mm

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