Selected Essays of John Berger
Ebook
Ebooks are designed for reading and have few connections to your library.
Overview
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.
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.
Will become the one reference point for anyone interested in Berger’s work
For the Berger fan - this will include many essays that are now out of print and Berger’s Booker Prize winning speech
With a superb introduction by Geoff Dyer that contextualises and unifies Berger’s vast and varied writings over the years
- Title: Selected Essays of John Berger
- Author: John Berger
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 608
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781408859575, 9780747554196, 0747554196, 1408859572
- Resource ID: LLS:9781408859575
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T11:40:36Z