A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country Doctor

A mother and father are travelling across Europe to their daughter's wedding. They meet for the first time in many years near the estuary of the river Po. Many people cross the pages of their story, from their future son-in-law to an...

Das erfolgreichste Buch zur Kunst der letzten fünfzig Jahre - jetzt neu auflegt im FISCHER Taschenbuch! Mit seinem legendären Buch ›Sehen. Das Bild der Welt in der Bilderwelt‹ lehrte John Berger uns Anfang der 1970er Jahre, Bilder neu zu...

John Berger's writings on photography are some of the most original of the twentieth century. This selection contains many groundbreaking essays and previously uncollected pieces written for exhibitions and catalogues in which Berger...

Die Fotografie hat immer einen besonderen Stellenwert in John Bergers Werk gehabt. Dieser Band versammelt zum ersten Mal seine Aufsätze zur Fotografie, von den sechziger Jahren bis heute: eine kleine Kunstgeschichte der Sichtbarkeit. Ob...

'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...

Dies ist ein Buch über Photographie - über ihre Rätselhaftigkeit, ihre Vieldeutigkeit, ihre andere Art des Erzählens. Bergers Essay legt den Grundstein für eine neue Theorie des Mediums und führt über die von Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes...

The politics and consolations of creativity as considered by much-loved critic John Berger. For fans of Susan Sontag's "On Photography" and Roland Barthes' "Mythologies". von Berger, John

'Polemical, meditative, radical, always original, Berger's essays are extremely wide-ranging' Geoff Dyer 'One of the most influential intellectuals of our time' Observer 'Berger is a writer one demands to know more about ... an...

No one appreciates the detail of being alive more than the dead. In Lisbon, a man encounters his mother sitting on a park bench who laughs with the impudence of a schoolgirl. She has been dead for fifteen years. In Krakow market he...

John Peter Berger (born November 5th, 1926) is an art critic, painter and novelist. His acclaimed works of both fiction and non-fiction include the seminal Ways of Seeing and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. He lives in...

Das Buch "G. von Berger, John" ist eine fesselnde Biografie über das Leben und die Arbeit von John Berger, einem renommierten englischen Kunstkritiker, Schriftsteller und Maler. Es beleuchtet seine Kindheit, seine Ausbildung und seine...