John Berger

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John Berger

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November 05, 1926 in Highams Park, London, England, The United Kingdom

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John Peter Berger is an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a college text.


Average rating: 3.87 · 15,261 ratings · 670 reviews · 65 distinct works
Ways of Seeing
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 11,292 ratings — published 1972 — 11 editions
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About Looking
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 644 ratings — published 1980 — 13 editions
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To the Wedding
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions
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3.39 of 5 stars 3.39 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1972 — 19 editions
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Pig Earth
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 1979 — 16 editions
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The Shape of a Pocket
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions
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And Our Faces, My Heart, Br...
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 1982 — 13 editions
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From A to X
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions
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Hold Everything Dear: Dispa...
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Here Is Where We Meet: A St...
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions
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“When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own.”
John Berger, Keeping a Rendezvous

“Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.”
John Berger

“When we suffer anguish we return to early childhood because that is the period in which we first learnt to suffer the experience of total loss. It was more than that. It was the period in which we suffered more total losses than in all the rest of our life put together.”
John Berger

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