And Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

by JohnBerger (Author), John Berger (Author)

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'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.

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'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.

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Format: paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published:
ISBN 10: 0747576912
ISBN 13: 9780747576914
Book Overview: John Berger is the Booker Prize-winning author of G and To the Wedding and this classic work is his best known, translated into 9 languages Published in April to coincide with Collaborations, a month-long John Berger celebration that is being organised by a team of film-makers, journalists, writers and friends. The season of events will include a film and TV retrospective at the NFT; readings at the South Bank Centre with the participation of Michael Ondaatje, Arundhati Roy and many other writers; a 'performance' at King's Cross orchestrated by Simon McDunny of Complicite; readings from Here is Where We Meet; theatre productions of some of Berger's plays; a new TV documentary and a DVD of selected TV work. Funding is being raised for this project which is certain to bring to public attention the extraordinary range of achievements of this great man of arts and letters John Berger's eagerly awaited new book, Here is Where We Meet, is published in March 2005

Media Reviews

'Berger is a writer one demands to know more about ... He has an intriguing and powerful mind and talent' New York Times 'He handles thoughts the way an artist handles paint. His mind is spattered with colour ... his writing has a physical reality' The Times 'There is a great stillness in Berger's prose. But after a few pages, his statements start to sing and go on singing' New Republic 'John Berger is genius invisible. His life's work is synonymous with the creation of unforgettable living portraits' Scotsman

Author Bio

John Berger was born in London in 1926. His many books, innovative in form and far-reaching in their historical and political insight, include the Booker Prize-winning novel G, To the Wedding and King. Amongst his outstanding studies of art and photography are Another Way of Telling, The Success and Failure of Picasso, Titian: Nymph and Shepherd (with Katya Berger) and the internationally acclaimed Ways of Seeing. He lives and works in a small village in the French Alps, the setting for his trilogy Into Their Labours (Pig Earth, Once in Europa and Lilac and Flag). His collection of essays The Shape of a Pocket was published in 2001. His latest fiction, Here Is Where We Meet is published by Bloomsbury in 2005.