John Berger

John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmmaker, poet, philosopher, novelist, essayist, he is also a deeply thoughtful political activist. In Hold Everything Dear, he artistry and activism mesh in an attempt to make sense of the world as we have come to know it during the past six years.Berger analyzes the nature of terrorism and the profound despair that gives rise to it. He writes about the homelessness of millions across the globe who have been forced by poverty and war into lives as refugees. He discusses Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Serbia, Bosnia, China, Indonesia--anyplace the power of corporations, the military, or paramilitary elements is being exercised, depriving ordinary citizens of autonomy or livelihoods or the most basic of freedoms.Singularly lucid and bold, Hold Everything Dear fully acknowledges the depth of suffering occurring around the world and suggests ideas and action that might finally help bring it to an end. From one of the most widely admired, articulate, and impassioned writers of our time, this is a powerful collections of essays that holds a starkly reflective mirror up to post-9/11 realities.From the Hardcover edition.

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John Berger uses words to capture a splendid array of moments, passing encounters, and unnoticed gestures - together they express a frieze in history as we near the end of the century, and Berger places us there within it. Through Berger's words we see a street performer achieve a stillness so profound it recalls death. We enter a room where Simone Weil once lived, and where her presence lingers unexpectedly. We watch a man whose youth was spent in the maze of the Gulag, now forced to leave the house he had always imagined for himself in the years of his imprisonment. A vagabond cyclist pedals into our line of sight: she sees the world as if through a moving window, flowers grow in her basket as though on a windowsill. Each "photocopy" is about someone for whom Berger felt a kind of love. In giving life to these moments that caught his heart, Berger gives us, involuntarily, an intimate yet elusive portrait of himself.

Biografie van Isabelle Eberhardt (1877-1904), die zeven jaar als man verkleed door Noord-Afrika reisde. Biografie van de schrijfster en reizigster in Noord-Afrika (1877-1904).

The love story of Gino and Ninon, he an Italian salesman, she a Czech engineer's daughter. They meet in Verona, start dating. When Ninon learns she has the aids virus by a man she knew earlier, she breaks off the relationship. But such is Gino's love that he proposes anyway and they marry, fully aware of what is in store for them. By the author of Corker's Freedom.