A Writer of Our Time

The Life and Work of John Berger

Joshua Sperling

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English

Verso
26 November 2018

Theory of art; History of Art & Design Styles; Biography; Biography: general

"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."

By: Joshua Sperling
Imprint: Verso
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 29mm
Weight: 608g
ISBN: 9781786637420
ISBN 10: 1786637421
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 26 November 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Joshua Sperling has written on film, art and culture for a range of publications including Brooklyn Rail, Guernica, Senses of Cinema, Film Quarterly, Jump Cut, Asymptote, Film Criticism, French Forum, and Bullett Magazine. He received a dual Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and Film & Media Studies from Yale University; his dissertation on John Berger was awarded special distinction. He also holds an M.F.A. in Fiction from Brooklyn College and is currently a visiting professor of Cinema Studies at Oberlin College.

Reviews for A Writer of Our Time: The Life and Work of John Berger

A welcome intervention that does justice to the legacy of Berger's thought and work which has been criminally underappreciated in Britain. * Morning Star * Berger's talent for 'seeing all sides' of a thing, his incredible floating perspective, would have been worth less had he not used it to choose the right side. -- Sarah Nicole Prickett * Bookforum *