Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays (Vintage International) - Softcover

Berger, John

 
9780679737148: Keeping a Rendezvous: Essays (Vintage International)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0679737146 ISBN 13: 9780679737148
Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

When he stands before Giorgione's La Tempesta, Booker Prize-winning author John Berger sees not only the painting but our whole notion of time, sweeping us away from a lost Eden. A photograph of a gravely joyful crowd gathered on a Prague street in November 1989 provokes reflection on the meaning of democracy and the reunion of a people with long-banished hopes and dreams.

With the luminous essays in Keeping a Rendezvous, we are given to see the world as Berger sees it -- to explore themes suggested by the work of Jackson Pollock or J. M. W. Turner, to contemplate the wonder of Paris. Rendezvous are manifold: between critic and art, artist and subject, subject and the unknown. But most significant are the rendezvous between author and reader, as we discover our perceptions informed by Berger's eloquence and courageous moral imagination.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and lived in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.

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Verlag
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0679737146
ISBN 13 
9780679737148
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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