John Berger

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

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Literature & Fiction, Arts & Photography

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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.

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Average rating: 3.87 · 15,261 ratings · 670 reviews · 65 distinct works

	Ways of Seeing 3.84 avg rating — 11,292 ratings — published 1972 — 11 editions	My rating:
	About Looking 4.03 avg rating — 644 ratings — published 1980 — 13 editions	My rating:
	To the Wedding 3.90 avg rating — 430 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	My rating:
	G. by John Berger, J. Laslocky (Editor) 3.39 avg rating — 366 ratings — published 1972 — 19 editions	My rating:
	Pig Earth 3.97 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 1979 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Shape of a Pocket 4.09 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 2001 — 10 editions	My rating:
	And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos 4.23 avg rating — 201 ratings — published 1982 — 13 editions	My rating:
	From A to X 3.74 avg rating — 184 ratings — published 2008 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance 4.02 avg rating — 152 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	Here Is Where We Meet: A Story of Crossing Paths 3.83 avg rating — 165 ratings — published 2005 — 9 editions	My rating:

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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

tags: books , reading , stories , story

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

tags: autobiography , john-berger , life , self , writing

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“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

tags: childhood , psychology , suffering

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