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Sto caricando le informazioni... Abbi cara ogni cosa: scritti politici 2001-2007 (2007)di John Berger
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. ![]() ![]() This is such a pretty and satisfying book to hold in my hand, a light paperback clean white, font and punctuation the only marks. The prose reads exactly like the interview I once watched between John Berger and a young cultural critic from the BBC. Berger was older, had retired to the Alps, lived in a tiny village where the peasant occupants gave him joy and his table was covered in red gingham and he replied to the critic’s adulatory questions in a voice that measured moments, every word weighed, leaving quiet before giving answers if he needed to take time. If you measure the book thematically it is not connected but it clearly threads through the thoughts of one man over a certain decade. It isn’t strictly a linear decade but perhaps there is a certain decade of thought, dominated by 2001 at the center. “Twelve Theses on the Economy of the Dead” is either a religion or a writing prompt. “Undefeated Despair” is the only kind of travel writing I would like to read. “Where Are We?” diagnoses us. Of course the rest of them are good in one way or another, “From the human capacity to arrange, to place, come language and communication” (82). He has written some essays without concrete answers at the end and it is nice not to be told, neatly, what to think. This is a piece of mid-2000s, of all the despair that a soul feels when looking at what is happening, honestly, in the world at any moment one happens to be alive. “In our exchanges, such as they are, in the midday company we offer one another, there is a substratum of what I can only describe as gratitude.” 127. This is the whole of it—a set of essays, gratitude underneath. A poet translates the newspaper, taking the imediate explosions and sifting through them to find terrible urgent beauty. The book begins with an invocation to the dead, and they remain present throught the journey to fear, despair and desire. After examining the terrible kinds of survival that is to left to people who have lost everything and still live, Berger brings us to desire and its ability to create another world, a chance for something to work right, to give a reprieve from pain, even if just for a moment. Art, of course, is present, as endurance, as witness and as creation. Berger has successfully added a depth and weight to discussions of our current times. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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From a Booker Prize-winning author and one of the most impassioned of writers of our time, this powerful collection of essays offers a stark portrait of post-9/11 realities. John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmmaker, poet, philosopher, novelist, and essayist, he is also a deeply thoughtful political activist. In Hold Everything Dear, his artistry and activism meld in an attempt to make sense of the current state of our world. Berger analyzes the nature of terrorism and the profound despair that gives rise to it. He writes about the homelessness of millions who have been forced by poverty and war to live as refugees. He discusses Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Serbia, Bosnia, China, Indonesia-anyplace where people are deprived of the most basic of freedoms. Berger powerfully acknowledges the depth of suffering around the world and suggests actions that might finally help bring it to an end. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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