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Watch J. Berger's "Ways of Seeing 1/4, part 2"

Friday, 12. September 2008, 20:50:09

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About John Berger

John Peter Berger (born November 5, 1926) 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. | © Wikipedia


John Berger: Ways of Seeing 1/4, part 2

To view the part before please click here: 1/4, part 1

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Watch J. Berger's "Ways of Seeing 1/4, part 1"

Tuesday, 15. July 2008, 22:13:04

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John Berger: Ways of Seeing 1/4, part 1

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Berger: Here is where we meet / Bilingual review

Saturday, 24. May 2008, 14:32:11

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John Berger: Here is where we meet / Hier, wo wir uns begegnen
Buchbesprechung auf Deutsch

Ich habe die englische Taschenbuchausgabe, die bei Vintage International erschienen ist, gelesen. John Bergers "Here is where we meet" ist Fiktion im besten Sinne und erzählt von Begegnungen des Ich-Erzählers in der Gegenwart mit längst verstorbenen Personen, die eine Rolle in seiner Vergangenheit gespielt haben. Eine deutsche Ausgabe ist im Carl Hanser Verlag erschienen.

Das Buch beginnt und endet mit einem Gespräch, das der Ich-Erzähler mit seiner toten Mutter führt. An verschiedenen Orten in Europa, wie beispielsweise in Lissabon oder auch in Polen, kommt es zu weiteren solchen Begnungen, in denen die Toten zu Gesprächspartnern und Begleitern werden.

Vergangenheit und Gegenwart vermengt John Berger in diesem Roman genau so wie Autobiographie, Reisebeschreibung, Geschichte und Fantasie. Man ahnt beim Lesen die Freiheit der Kunst im Hier und Jetzt. | © Elmar Driver


John Berger: Here is where we meet
Book review in English

I've read the English pocket edition which has been published by Vintage International. John Berger's "Here is where we meet" is fiction at it's best and tells the stories of the narrator's encounters with people that are dead for a long time. And these people played an important role in the narrator's past. By the way, there are also translations of this book into German and other languages.

The book starts and ends with a talk that the narrator has with his dead mother. At different places in Europe, like Lisbon, Poland and other locations, the narrator has more of those encounters in which the dead persons become interlocutors and companions.

John Berger blends in his book the past and the present, and he mixes his autobiography, different travelogues, history and phantasy as well. In this book you can guess what it means to be free in your writing in the here and now. | © Elmar Driver

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