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Informationen zum Autor John Berger was born in London in 1926. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include To the Wedding , King , and the Booker Prize-winning novel, G . Amongst his outstanding studies of art and photography are Another Way of Telling , The Success and Failure of Picasso, Titian: Nymph and Shepherd (with Katya Berger), and the internationally acclaimed Ways of Seeing . He lived and worked in a small village in the French Alps, the setting for his trilogy Into Their Labours ( Pig Earth, Once in Europa and Lilac and Flag ). His collection of essays The Shape of a Pocket was published in 2001. His latest novel, From A to X , was published in 2008. The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol , produced by Complicite and based on a story by Berger, toured for three years between 1994 and 1997. About Looking , published by Bloomsbury in April 2009, was the follow-up to the seminal Ways of Seeing , one of the most influential books on art in the 20th century. He died in early 2017. Klappentext John Berger writes: 'The 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, Palaeolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient Egyptians, an expert in the loneliness of certain hotel bedrooms, dogs at dusk, a man in a radio station. And unexpectedly, our exchanges strengthen each of us in our conviction that what is happening to the world today is wrong, and that what is often said about it is a lie. I've never written a book with a greater sense of urgency.' Zusammenfassung 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. This work features essays about - Rembrandt, Palaeolithic cave painters, a Romanian peasant, ancient Egyptians, an expert in the loneliness of certain hotel bedrooms, and a man in a radio station....
