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ESSAYS/ART CRITICISM
«
hose who read or listen to
our stories see everything as 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."
This brooding, provocative, and almost unbearably lovely book dis-
plays one of the great writers of our time at his freest and most
direct, addressing the themes that run beneath the surface of all his
work, from Ways of Seeing to his Into Their Labours trilogy.
In an extraordinary distillation of his gifts as a novelist, poet, art
critic, and social historian, John Berger reveals the ties between love
and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance
of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sex-
uality and the steady backward tug of time. He re-creates the myste-
rious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the
sensorial experience of viewing...
Tovább
Fülszöveg
ESSAYS/ART CRITICISM
«
hose who read or listen to
our stories see everything as 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."
This brooding, provocative, and almost unbearably lovely book dis-
plays one of the great writers of our time at his freest and most
direct, addressing the themes that run beneath the surface of all his
work, from Ways of Seeing to his Into Their Labours trilogy.
In an extraordinary distillation of his gifts as a novelist, poet, art
critic, and social historian, John Berger reveals the ties between love
and absence, the ways poetry endows language with the assurance
of prayer, and the tensions between the forward movement of sex-
uality and the steady backward tug of time. He re-creates the myste-
rious forces at work in a Rembrandt painting, transcribes the
sensorial experience of viewing lilacs at dusk, and explores the
meaning of home to early man and to the hundreds of thousands of
displaced people in our cities today.
A work of unclassifiable innovation and consummate beauty, And
Our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos reminds us of Nabokov and
Auden, Brecht and Lawrence, in its seamless fusion of the political
and the personal.
Vissza