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A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger - Softcover

Sperling, Joshua

 
9781786637437: A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger
Softcover
ISBN 10: 178663743X ISBN 13: 9781786637437
Verlag: Verso, 2020

Inhaltsangabe

John Berger was one of the most influential thinkers and writers of postwar Europe. As a novelist, he won the Booker Prize in 1972, donating half his prize money to the Black Panthers; as a TV presenter he changed the way we looked at art in Ways of Seeing; as a storyteller and political activist he defended the rights and dignity of workers, migrants and the oppressed around the world. In 1953 he wrote: "Far from dragging politics into art, art has dragged me into politics." He remained a revolutionary up to his death in January, 2017.

In A Writer of Our Time, Joshua Sperling places Berger's life and works within the historical narrative of postwar Britain and beyond. The book also explores, through the work, the larger questions that vexed a generation: the purpose of art, the nature of creative freedom, the meaning of commitment. Drawing on extensive interviews, close readings and a wealth of archival sources only recently made available, the book brings the many different faces of John Berger together and shows him as one of the most vital, and brilliant, thinkers and storytellers of our time.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Joshua Sperling was born in New York City and grew up in California. His writing has appeared in the Brooklyn Rail, Guernica, Film Quarterly, Jump Cut and Bullett Magazine, among other publications. He received a PhD in Comparative Literature, Film and Media from Yale University and currently teaches at Oberlin College.

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Verlag
Verso
Erscheinungsdatum
2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
178663743X
ISBN 13 
9781786637437
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
304
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