A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Writings of John Berger - Hardcover

Sperling, Joshua

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786637421 ISBN 13: 9781786637420

Verlag: Durnell Marston, 2018

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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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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: Durnell Marston
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1786637421
• ISBN 13: 9781786637420
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Herausgeber: Hollis Leo
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