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The Gamekeeper (Paperback)
Barry Hines; Foreword by John Berger
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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.
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
In the centre of a 1960s hospital ward sits a curtained-off bed,
guarded by a policeman. In it lies a murderer, hidden from view and
likely to die before he can be hanged for his crime. In the closed,
regimented society of the ward, his invisible presence fractures
and rebuilds the way the other patients see the world. In the face
of someone who has shattered all social covenants, life can no
longer continue according to the rules. Upturning conventions from
morality to masculinity to class to prejudice, The Foot of Clive is
a masterclass on humanity from the Booker Prize-winning author of
G.
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Cataract (Hardcover)
John Berger; Illustrated by Selcuk Demirel
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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.
'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.
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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G. (Paperback)
John Berger
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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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A Load of Shit
John Berger
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This carefully-designed textbook offers a brand-new approach to
learning neuroanatomy for medical students and newly-qualified
doctors, particularly those considering a career in neurology and
neurosurgery. Promoting active learning and taking inspiration from
other popular case-based formats, readers are encouraged to
overcome their inherent 'neurophobia'. The accessible text and
practical examples, unencumbered by esoteric minutiae, support
students and trainees in developing the necessary skills that will
be essential in later clinical practice. Developed specifically in
response to student feedback, the authors have succeeded in
creating a novel, brief, and high-yield primer that offers a unique
approach to mastering this challenging discipline. Case Closed!
Neuroanatomy not only teaches students how to localize, but also
guides them to solve successfully the problems that will reappear
in their exams and in the clinic.
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Smoke (Hardcover)
John Berger; Illustrated by Selcuk Demirel
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A pictoral essay by the great art critic, novelist and long-time
smoker, John Berger, and Turkish writer and illustrator Selcuk
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)
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.
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.
This carefully-designed textbook offers a brand-new approach to
learning neuroanatomy for medical students and newly-qualified
doctors, particularly those considering a career in neurology and
neurosurgery. Promoting active learning and taking inspiration from
other popular case-based formats, readers are encouraged to
overcome their inherent 'neurophobia'. The accessible text and
practical examples, unencumbered by esoteric minutiae, support
students and trainees in developing the necessary skills that will
be essential in later clinical practice. Developed specifically in
response to student feedback, the authors have succeeded in
creating a novel, brief, and high-yield primer that offers a unique
approach to mastering this challenging discipline. Case Closed!
Neuroanatomy not only teaches students how to localize, but also
guides them to solve successfully the problems that will reappear
in their exams and in the clinic.
John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original
of the 20th 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.
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.
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.
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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What Time Is It? (Hardcover)
John Berger; Illustrated by Selcuk Demirel; Introduction by Maria Nadotti
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"Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have
always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the
meantime.'" --John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was
this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is It?, now
posthumously published for the first time in English by Notting
Hill Editions. Berger died before it was completed, but the text
has been assembled and illustrated by his longtime collaborator and
friend Sel uk Demirel, and has an introduction by Maria Nadotti.
What Time Is It? is a profound and playful meditation on the
illusory nature of time. Berger, the great art critic and Man
Booker Prize-winning author, reflects on what time has come to mean
to us in modern life. Our perception of time assumes a uniform and
ceaseless passing of time, yet time is turbulent. It expands and
contracts according to the intensity of the lived moment. We talk
of time "saved" in a hundred household appliances; time, like
money, is exchanged for the content it lacks. Berger posits the
idea that time can lengthen lifetimes once we seize the present
moment. "What-is-to-come, what-is-to-be-gained empties what-is."
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.
'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.
At the height of his powers, Pablo Picasso was the artist as
revolutionary, breaking through the niceties of form in order to
mount a direct challenge to the values of his time. At the height
of his fame, he was the artist as royalty: incalculably wealthy,
universally idolized--and wholly isolated.In this stunning critical
assessment, John Berger--one of this century's most insightful
cultural historians--trains his penetrating gaze upon this most
prodigious and enigmatic painter and on the Spanish landscape and
very particular culture that shaped his life and work.
'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'.
'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.
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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