Selected Essays of John Berger

Informationen zum Autor John Berger Klappentext The collected essays of one of the world's greatest writers and thinkers 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. Vorwort 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. Zusammenfassung Booker wining novelist, playwright, essayist, poet and critic - even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations. This collection of essays takes a look at his career. Berger's wide-ranging essays emphasise the continuities that have underpinned more than 40 years of tireless intellectual inquiry and political engagement.

Product details

• Authors: John Berger, Berger John, Geoff Dyer
• Assisted by: Geoff Dyer (Editor), Dyer Geoff (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.11.2001
• EAN: 9780747554196
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-5419-6
• No. of pages: 608
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 45 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Art; Photography & photographs, History of Ideas, Biography: general, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, HISTORY / Social History, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Art forms