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020			_a9781786637420
050	0	0	_aPR6052.E564 _bZ87 2018
082	1		_a92 BER _2
100	1		_aSperling, Joshua
245	1	2	_aA writer of our time : _bthe life and work of John Berger _c/ Joshua Sperling
260			_aNew York _b: Verso _c, 2018
300			_a293 p. _b: illus. _c; 24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aJohn Berger is 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 through Ways of Seeing. As a storyteller and political activist, he defended the rights and dignity of workers, migrants and the oppressed around the world. He remained a revolutionary up to his death in January 2017. In A Writer of Our Time, Joshua Sperling places Berger's life and work within the historical narrative of postwar Britain and beyond. The book explores 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.
546			_aEnglish
600	1	4	_aBerger, John _d(1926-2017)
650		4	_aAuthors, English _y-20th century _v--Biography
650		4	_aArt critics _z-Great Britain _x-Biography
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