John Berger
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born
November 05, 1926
gender
male
place of birth
Highams Park, London, England, The United Kingdom
genre
Literature & Fiction, Arts & Photography
about this author
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.
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Ways of Seeing by John Berger avg rating 4.02 — 1,338 ratings — published 1972 7 editions |
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About Looking by John Berger avg rating 4.04 — 184 ratings — published 1980 8 editions |
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To the Wedding by John Berger avg rating 3.99 — 162 ratings — published 1995 6 editions |
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Pig Earth by John Berger avg rating 4.09 — 112 ratings — published 1979 9 editions |
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The Shape of a Pocket by John Berger avg rating 4.06 — 109 ratings — published 2001 7 editions |
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G.: A Novel by John Berger avg rating 3.48 — 108 ratings — published 1972 12 editions |
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And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos by John Berger avg rating 4.53 — 74 ratings — published 1982 11 editions |
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Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance by John Berger avg rating 4.08 — 74 ratings — published 2007 4 editions |
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From A to X: Some Letters Recuperated by John Berger by John Berger avg rating 3.74 — 69 ratings — published 2008 3 editions |
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Selected Essays by John Berger, Geoff Dyer avg rating 4.43 — 54 ratings — published 2001 3 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)
— John Berger (Keeping a Rendezvous)
"Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form."
— John Berger
— John Berger
"My heart born naked
was swaddled in lullabies.
Later alone it wore
poems for clothes.
Like a shirt
I carried on my back
the poetry I had read.
So I lived for half a century
until wordlessly we met.
From my shirt on the back of the chair
I learn tonight
how many years
of learning by heart
I waited for you."
— John Berger (And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos)
was swaddled in lullabies.
Later alone it wore
poems for clothes.
Like a shirt
I carried on my back
the poetry I had read.
So I lived for half a century
until wordlessly we met.
From my shirt on the back of the chair
I learn tonight
how many years
of learning by heart
I waited for you."
— John Berger (And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos)
