John Berger: 76 books

En 1974, John Berger ponía los cimientos del que sería uno de los logros más admirados y aclamados de su narrativa: la trilogía De sus fatigas, en la que se relata el viaje de los campesinos europeos desde las montañas a la metrópolis, donde su modo de vida agoniza, herido de muerte. Puerca...

Para movernos sobre un territorio podemos disponer de guías y mapas, o pisar directamente el terreno. Este es el planteamiento del que parte Panorámicas, un recorrido por las guías y mapas con los que John Berger reformuló su mirada del arte, así como por sus impresiones y reflexiones surgidas...

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger presents a collection of moments, each supremely vivid, that together make up a frieze of human history at the end of the millennium as well as a subtle and affecting self-portrait of their author. Using careful, intensely visual prose snapping frozen vignettes...

With 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...

With 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...

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger, one of the most widely admired writers of our time, returns us to the captivating play and narrative allure of his previous novels–G. and Pig Earth among them–with a shimmering fiction drawn from chapters of his own life. One hot afternoon in Lisbon,...

Booker Prize-winning author John Berger gives a novel both tragic and joyous, intelligent and erotic. In To the Wedding, a 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...

Una novela sobre la libertad, el sacrificio y lo que significa ser un artista hoy en día. Londres, 1958. El pintor húngaro Janos Lavin ha huido sin dejar rastro horas después de la inauguración de su primera exposición individual. Ni su mujer ni sus amigos comprenden por qué se ha marchado...

As Dickens and Balzac did for their time, so John Berger does for ours, rendering the movement of a people and the passing of a way of life in his masterwork, the Into Their Labours trilogy. With Lilac and Flag, the Alpine village of the two earlier volumes has been forsaken for the mythic city of...

Lo sguardo di un cane, con la sua muta urgenza, può interrogare in modo profondo, indicando realtà che sfuggono all’attenzione umana. Una lepre che attraversa un confine, davanti agli agenti di frontiera, rivela quanto ci sia di arbitrario nelle convenzioni che governano il nostro quotidiano....

"John Berger y Selçuk Demirel empezaron a pensar y a trabajar en este libro en 2016. En él tratan una cuestión crucial para ambos: el tiempo. El tiempo como concepto filosófico que cambia según los momentos históricos y políticos del pensamiento; el tiempo de la memoria y...

Questa raccolta di testi e immagini in parte inediti ricompone per la prima volta i molti aspetti di un’opera che ha la caratteristica più unica che rara di presentarsi come dispersa nella sua molteplicità. Di volta in volta narratore, sceneggiatore cinematografico, autore teatrale, giornalista,...

Forse non tutti sanno che il filosofo Baruch Spinoza – detto Bento –, uno degli esponenti del razionalismo del XVII, antesignano dell’Illuminismo e sommo conoscitore dell’esegesi biblica, disegnava. Anzi, era intimamente ossessionato dal disegno. Dopo la scomunica e la cacciata dalla comunità...

Berger reveals the ties between love and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sexuality and the steady backward tug of time. He recreates the mysterious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the sensorial...