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Todas las ventanas tienen toldos y todos son del mismo color. Rojo. Muchos están descoloridos, unos cuantos parecen recien puestos, pero todos son versiones viejas y nuevas del mismo color. Todos encajan perfectamente en el marco de la ventana, y su ángulo se puede ajustar según la cantidad de luz que se desea que entre. (...). Su rojo no es el de la arcilla, ni el de la terracota; es un rojo de tinte. Detrás de los toldos se ocultan cuerpos y los secretos de esos cuerpos, que de ese lado dejan de ser secretos.

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La gran novela de John Berger, ganadora del Premio Booker.Quién es G.? Don Juan? Garibaldi? Algún héroe romántico? El libertador de las mujeres? Espectador de los principales acontecimientos que agitaron Europa en los años anteriores a la Primera Guerra Mundial, G. encarna, según su autor, al hombre que hace el amor como una forma de destruir mentalmente a la sociedad establecida.Profética en muchos aspectos, G. es una reflexión sobre la sexualidad masculina en un mundo en el que las mujeres ya no son propiedad indiscutible de los hombres. Su atrevida composición formal, resultado del convencimiento de su autor de que nunca más se volverá a contar una sola historia como si fuera la única y de su empeño por modernizar el marxismo, ha despertado acaloradas polémicas en todas partes. G. recibió el Premio Booker y está considerada como una de las mejores novelas anglosajonas de las últimas décadas.La crítica ha dicho...Fascinante... Una extraordinar

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?Siempre he detestado que digan que soy crítico de arte.? Así presenta John Berger esta antología completa de todos sus ensayos sobre artistas. Y ciertamente sería poco fiel a la realidad reducir a la categoría de crítico de arte a uno de los intelectuales europeos que no solo ha sabido diseccionar la obra plástica de tantos artistas, sino que ha aportado nuevos enfoques sobre la propia naturaleza del lenguaje visual y su papel en la cultura contemporánea.Este es el primero de dos volúmenes donde por primera vez se recogen de forma exhaustiva todos los textos que John Berger dedicó a los artistas que le enseñaron y le inspiraron a través de sus vidas y sus obras. Compilados por Tom Overton a partir de los archivos que Berger donó aun en vida a la British Library, los textos de este primer volumen abarcan desde las pinturas prehistóricas de la cueva de Chauvet hasta el advenimiento de la modernidad con Paul Cezánne, mientras que los del segundo volumen incluyen ensayos que abarcan de

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The Japanese ruled parts of China prior to World War II by means of Chinese puppet governments who ruled their own population on behalf of the Japanese. This first of two volumes tells the story of the Chinese who fought for the Japanese over a 14 year period, specifically in China and Manchukuo.

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John Berger, one of the world's most celebrated storytellers and writers on art, tells a personal history of art from the prehistoric paintings of the Chauvet caves to 21st century conceptual artists. Berger presents entirely new ways of thinking about artists both canonized and obscure, from Rembrandt to Henry Moore, Jackson Pollock to Picasso. Throughout, Berger maintains the essential connection between politics, art and the wider study of culture. The result is an illuminating walk through many centuries of visual culture, from one of the contemporary world's most incisive critical voices.

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In this luminous novel about a modern Don Juan, John Berger relates the story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of the last century as Europe teeters on the brink of war. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal the conditions of the libertine's success: his essential loneliness, the quiet cumulation in each of his sexual experiences of all of those that precede it, the tenderness that infuses even the briefest of his encounters, and the way women experience their own extraordinariness through their liaisons with him. Set against the turbulent backdrop of Garibaldi's attempt to unite Italy, the failed revolution of Milanese workers in 1898, the Boer War and the dramatic first flight across the Alps, G. is a brilliant novel about the search for intimacy in the turmoil of history.

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'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.'A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the visionary thinker and art critic.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

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Por qué son tan pocas las personas que tienen lo que se calificaría como una buena muerte? Y, antes aun: qué es una buena muerte? Qué forma de morir queremos para nosotros y para nuestros seres queridos? "Compruebo -escribe la doctora Iona Heath- que para muchos una buena muerte es aquella en la que el moribundo puede controlar el proceso y morir con dignidad y calma, y todos los que lo rodean se sienten privilegiados, en cierta forma enriquecidos por la situación". Sin embargo, esas muertes son poco comunes. Son muchos más losque son objeto de manoseo y falta de respeto, los que quedan sumidos en el sufrimiento.Morir es difícil. También es difícil ser médico: presenciar cada día la agonía y tomar conciencia una y otra vez de los límites de la ciencia. Cuando el paciente terminal conoce a su médico, ambos inician una de las tareas más complejas que deberán afrontar. Cómo dialogar con quien está por dejarnos? Cómo acompañarlo sin reducirlo a objeto de un inútil ensañamiento tera

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Combinando la soberbia profundidad de sus ensayos y críticas artísticas con la riqueza emocionalde su ficción y su poesía, en esta obra John Berger vuelve por primera vez la lente de su arte sobre sí mismo. Así, se concentra en sus emociones personales y su vida y se cuestiona sobre ciertos aspectos tan trascendentales como qué es lo que nos lleva a amar?Berger vuelve a mostrarnos otra manera de ver, ofreciéndonos, además, una magnífica declaraciónacerca del enfrentamiento entre la devastación y el amor en nuestro mundo.

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'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and political discourse today. Also containing Berger's own drawings, notes, memories and reflections on everything from Albert Camus to global capitalism, Confabulations takes us to what is 'true, essential and urgent'.

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"Siempre he detestado que digan que soy crítico de arte." Así presenta John Berger esta antología completa de todos sus ensayos sobre artistas. Y ciertamente sería poco fiel a la realidad reducir a la categoría de crítico de arte a uno de los intelectuales europeos que no solo ha sabido diseccionar la obra plástica de tantos artistas, sino que ha aportado nuevos enfoques sobre la propia naturaleza del lenguaje visual y su papel en la cultura contemporánea.En esta antología completa de sus ensayos sobre artistas, compilados por Tom Overton a partir de los archivos que Berger donó aun en vida a la British Library, John Berger nos revela su forma de ahondar en una obra de arte. Sus textos no solo nos sumergen en la singularidad de cada creación artística, sino que van mucho más allá y nos conducen con maestría entre lo personal, lo cultural y lo político. No en vano Berger es considerado uno de los intelectuales europeos más importantes de nuestro tiempo y uno de los críticos que ha sa

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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 directamente de lo artístico, lo social y lo político.En la estela de los imprescindibles retratos recogidos en Sobre los artistas, Panorámicas presenta una brillante antología de piezas muy diversas ensayos, relatos cortos, poemas que replantean radicalmente nuestra concepción del arte y su papel en el mundo. El dibujo, la narración, Roland Barthes, Rosa Luxemburg, Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, los museos, la crítica o el retrato. En sus páginas Berger no solo rinde homenaje a los personajes y las herramientas que lo guiaron a través del territorio, sino que nos sumerge directamente en nuevas y apasionantes formas de pensar la idea de creador, los movimientos artístico

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En esta antología completa de sus ensayos sobre artistas, John Berger nos revela su forma de ahondar en una obra de arte. Sus textos no solo nos sumergen en la singularidad de cada creación artística, sino que van mucho más allá y nos conducen con maestría entre lo personal, lo cultural y lo político. No en vano Berger es considerado uno de los intelectuales europeos más importantes de nuestro tiempo y uno de los críticos que ha sacudido los cimientos de nuestra concepción del arte y el lenguaje visual reformulando su papel en la cultura contemporánea.En este segundo y último volumen dedicado a los artistas, el crítico británico nos introduce en el advenimiento de la modernidad con la obra de Claude Monet hasta llegar a Randa Mdah, una artista palestina nacida en 1983. Al igual que en el primer volumen, que arrancaba con las pinturas prehistóricas de la cueva de Chauvet hasta llegar a Paul Cezánne, los ensayos han sido compilados por Tom Overton a partir de los archivos que Berger d

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Con esta provocativa y conmovedora colección de ensayos, un crítico de nuestro tiempo responde a las profundas cuestiones que plantea el mundo visual. Cuando John Berger escribe sobre cubismo, no sólo escribe de Braque, Léger, Picasso y Gris, sino de ese milagroso momento al inicio del siglo xx cuando el mundo convergía alrededor de un prodigioso sentimiento de esperanza. Cuando analiza el trabajo de Modigliani, ve el amor infinito que se revela en las alargadas líneas de la figura pintada. Recreándose desde el Renacimiento hasta la conflagración de Hiroshima; desde el Bósforo hasta Manhattan; desde los tallistas de un pueblo en Francia hasta Goya, Durero y Van Gogh; y desde experiencias personales de amor y pérdida hasta el más importante levantamiento político de nuestros días, este libro nos incita a mirar con la misma tolerancia, coraje y compromiso moral con que mira el autor.

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El tiempo como concepto filosófico que cambia según los momentos históricos y políticos del pensamiento; el tiempo de la memoria y el duelo; el tiempo del amor y de la esperanza; el tiempo del cuerpo biológico, prisionero de sus ritmos implacables, y aquel, eterno, de la conciencia, el tiempo de la resistencia y la revuelta, del proyecto y de la visión; el tiempo de la naturaleza, entre la duración efímera de la mariposa y el tiempo rocoso y, sin embargo, morrénico, de las montañas y de los glaciares; el tiempo despiadado e indiferente del capital, que condena a la obsolescencia todo lo que encuentra a su paso; el tiempo de los sueños y de la invención, de la escritura y del dibujo.

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The Underground Sea is a succinct, urgent collection of writing from John Berger''s archive. It brings together for the first time his work on mineworkers and the miners'' strikes and has been edited as a set of actions for today. Publication of The Underground Sea marks the 40th Anniversary of the 1984-5 Strike, at a time when people are rediscovering the necessity, power and possibilities of collective action.Including transcripts and image-essay of his rarely-seen BBC programme, Germinal; interviews and his essay ''Miners'', it places itself in the heart of a Derbyshire mining village, with reflections on the everyday life of a typical pit community. Berger grapples with the politics of witness as he studies the miners'' labour and the wider community shaped in service to this work. Reflecting on their precarity, he goes back to Zola''s novel for hope that ''a new world is germinating underneath the ground. And when it arrives, it will crack open the

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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.'

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In this brilliant collection of diverse works-essays, short stories, poems, translations-which spans a lifetime's engagement with art, John Berger reveals how he came to his own unique way of seeing. He challenges readers to rethink their every assumption about the role of creativity in our lives. Paying homage to the writers and thinkers who influenced him, he pushes at the limits of art writing, demonstrating beautifully how his artist's eye makes him a storyteller, rather than a critic. His expansive perspective takes in artistic movements and individual artists-from the Renaissance to the present-while never neglecting the social and political context of their creation. Landscapes-alongside Portraits-completes a tour through the history of art that will be an intellectual benchmark for many years to come.

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'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless ...In our brief mortal lives, we are grinders of these lenses'. When John Berger wrote this apparently unclassifiable book, it was to become a sensation, translated into nine languages and indelible from the minds of those who read it. This stunning work is a shoebox filled with delicate love letters containing poetry and thoughts on mortality, art, love and absence, capturing moments in time that hover above Berger's surprising landscapes. From his lyrical description of the works of Caravaggio and profound explorations of death and immigration to the sight of some lilac at dusk in the mountains, this is a beautiful and most intimate response to the world around us.

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John Berger broke new ground with his penetrating writings on life, art and how we see the world around us. Here he explores how the ancient relationship between man and nature has been broken in the modern consumer age, with the animals that used to be at the centre of our existence now marginalized and reduced to spectacle.Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have transformed the way we see ourselves - and each other. They have inspired debate, dissent, war and revolution. They have enlightened, outraged, provoked and comforted. They have enriched lives - and destroyed them. Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers, pioneers, radicals and visionaries whose ideas shook civilization and helped make us who we are.

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"Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled."John Berger's "Ways of Seeing" is one of the most stimulating and the most influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the "London Sunday Times" critic commented: "This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings ...he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures." By now he has.

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As a novelist, essayist, 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 of a relationship between man and beast all but lost in the twentieth century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority and potency posed by clay and flesh? And how does solitude inform the art of Giacometti? In asking these and other questions, Berger alters the vision of anyone who reads his work.

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A mother and father, estranged for years, are travelling across Europe to their daughter's wedding. Vibrant, beautiful Ninon has fallen in love with the young Italian Gino. She is twenty-three years old - and she is dying of AIDS. As their wedding approaches, the story of Ninon and Gino unfolds. On their wedding day, Ninon will take off her shoes and dance with Gino: they will dance as if they will never tire; as if their happiness is eternal; as if death will never touch them. To the Wedding is a novel of devastating heartache, soaring hope and above all, love that triumphs over death.

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No one appreciates the detail of being alive more than the dead. In Lisbon, a man encounters his mother sitting on a park bench who laughs with the impudence of a schoolgirl. She has been dead for fifteen years. In Krakow market he recognises Ken, his passeur, the most important person in his life between the ages of eleven and seventeen. They last met when Ken was sixty-five - forty years ago. The number of lives that enter any one life is incalculable. In this nomadic and playful book which travels through fictions across Europe, seemingly disparate stories reveal themselves to be linked, mislaid objects find their place and sensual memories penetrate the present.

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Based on the BBC television series, John Berger's Ways of Seeing is a unique look at the way we view art, published as part of the Penguin on Design series in Penguin Modern Classics.'Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.''But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we explain that world with words, but word can never undo the fact that we are surrounded by it. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled.' John Berger's Ways of Seeing is one of the most stimulating and influential books on art in any language. First published in 1972, it was based on the BBC television series about which the Sunday Times critic commented: 'This is an eye-opener in more ways than one: by concentrating on how we look at paintings . . . he will almost certainly change the way you look at pictures.' By now he has.John Berger (b. 1926) is an art critic, painter and novelist.born in Hackney, London. His novel G. (1972) won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Booker Prize. If you enjoyed Ways of Seeing, you might like Susan Sontag's On Photography, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'Berger has the ability to cut right through the mystification of professional art critics ... he is a liberator of images: and once we have allowed the paintings to work on us directly, we are in a much better position to make a meaningful evaluation'Peter Fuller, Arts Review'The influence of the series and the book ... was enormous ... It opened up for general attention areas of cultural study that are now commonplace'Geoff Dyer in Ways of Telling'One of the most influential intellectuals of our time'Observer

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Why does the Western world look to migrant laborers to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr come to grips with what it is to be a migrant worker-the material circumstances and the inner experience-and, in doing so, reveal how the migrant is not so much on the margins of modern life, but absolutely central to it. First published in 1975, this finely wrought exploration remains as urgent as ever, presenting a mode of living that pervades the countries of the West and yet is excluded from much of its culture.

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'We live within a spectacle of empty clothes and unworn masks'In this series of remarkable pieces from across his career, John Berger celebrates and dissects the close links between art and society and the individual. Few writers give a more vivid and moving sense of how we make art and how art makes us.One of twenty new books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

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Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar (1891-1956) es una de las principales figuras sociopolíticas de la historia de la India. Sus tempranas experiencias como intocable ?el hecho de no poder beber agua en la escuela, o de que los cocheros se negaran a conducir la carroza donde viajaba para no contaminarse? lo impregnaron con una conciencia política que no lo abandonaría durante el resto de su vida, la misma que dedicó a luchar por los derechos de los descastados, hasta convertirse en el arquitecto de la Constitución de la India.Bhimayana. Experiencias de un intocable es un hermoso libro gráfico que narra la lucha constante que fue su vida, ilustrado por los artistas indios Durgabai y Subhash Vyam, exponentes de la técnica de arte Pardhan Gond. Con un estilo que rompe los moldes de las narraciones gráficas convencionales, la vida de Ambedkar adquiere el tono de una épica india clásica, como el Ramayana, y de ahí el título elegido por los autores para nombrar esta hermosa historia de dignidad y vale

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A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Selçuk Demirel. "Once upon a time, men, women and (secretly) children smoked." This charming illustrated work reflects on the cultural implications of smoking, and suggests, through a series of brilliantly inventive illustrations, that society's attitude to smoke is both paradoxical and intolerant. It portrays a world in which smokers, banished from public places, must encounter one another as outlaws. Meanwhile, car exhausts and factory chimneys continue to pollute the atmosphere. Smoke is a beautifully illustrated prose poem that lingers in the mind. "A cigarette is a breathing space. It makes a parenthesis. The time of a cigarette is a parenthesis, and if it is shared you are both in that parenthesis. It's like a proscenium arch for a dialogue." - John Berger (in interview)

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A new edition of John Berger and Jean Mohr’s classic investigation into the nature of photography and what makes it so different from other art forms 'One of the world’s most influential art critics … Berger sees clearly with fresh surprise yet profound understanding' Washington Times In one of the most eloquent accounts of photography ever devised, the writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr set out to understand the fundamental nature of photography and how it makes its impact. Asking a range of questions – What is a photograph? What do photographs mean? How can they be used? – they give their answers in terms of a photograph as ‘a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photography are often contradictory’. From these beginnings they develop a theory of photography that has at its centre the form’s essential ambiguity, arguing that photography is totally unlike a film and has nothing to do with reportage. Rather, it constitutes ‘another way of telling’. The unique combination of critic and photographer results in a work that moves beyond the landmarks established by Walter Benjamin, Roland Barthes and Susan Sontag to establish a new theory of photography. This unique combination of words and pictures includes 230 photographs by Jean Mohr.

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John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger probes the work of photographers such as Henri Cartier-Bresson and W. Eugene Smith - and the lives of those photographed - with fierce engagement, intensity and tenderness.The selection is made and introduced by Geoff Dyer, author of the award-winning The Ongoing Moment.How do we see the world around us? This is one of a number of pivotal works by creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision for ever.John Berger was born in London in 1926. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and he now lives in a small village in the French Alps.Geoff Dyer is the author of four novels and several non-fiction books. Winner of the Lannan Literary Award, the International Centre of Photography's 2006 Infinity Award and the American Academy of Arts and Letters's E. M. Forster Award, Dyer is also a regular contributor to many publications in the UK and the US. He lives in London.

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George Purse is an ex-steelworker employed as a gamekeeper on a ducal country estate. He gathers, hand-rears and treasures the birds to be shot at by his wealthy employers. He must ensure that the Duke and his guests have good hunts when the shooting season comes round on the Glorious Twelfth; he must ensure that the poachers who sneak onto the land in search of food do not. Season by season, over the course of a year, George makes his rounds. He is not a romantic hero. He is a laborer, who knows the natural world well and sees it without sentimentality. Rightly acclaimed as a masterpiece of nature writing as well as a radical statement on work and class, The Gamekeeper was also, like Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave (Kes), adapted by Hines and filmed by Ken Loach, and it too stands as a haunting classic of twentieth-century fiction.

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What happens when cataracts rob an art critic of his sight? John Berger, whose classic book Ways of Seeing has been in print for fifty years, joins forces with Turkish illustrator Selcuk Demirel to reflect on his own experience of loss of vision. 'John Berger writes about what is important, not just interesting. In contemporary English letters he seems to me peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world.' Susan Sontag.

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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.

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