Berger: Here is where we meet / Bilingual review
Saturday, 24. May 2008, 14:32:11
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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b_laudanum # 24. May 2008, 15:26
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DeathKnight1092 # 26. May 2008, 16:37
I'm gonna download the English Ver *if it's in Internet*
So How r u
E. Driver # 3. June 2008, 16:22
John Berger really is worth reading.
See you
Elmar
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Hey watch Twilight yet
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E. Driver # 28. November 2008, 10:52
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DeathKnight1092 # 17. December 2008, 11:46
our country don't have Christmas Vacation...so...damn...
but of course...we will celebrate christmas...man...can't wait to christmas...I've already brought my grand father's gun out of the box