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"I admire and love John Berger's books. He writes about what is important, not just interesting. In contemporary English letters, he seems to me peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience. He is a wonderful artist and thinker." Susan Sontag"
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One of the most influential intellectuals of our time returns with a meditation on political resistance. "Hold Everything Dear" is John Berger's vital response to today's global economic and military tyranny. From Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and 7/7, to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the countless personal choices, encounters, illuminations, sacrifices, new desires, griefs and memories that occur in the course of political resistance to empire and colonialism. These sensuous reflections reveal the political at the core of human existence, from the relentless of daily life in the West Bank, the potential force of desire, to the unflinching gaze of Pasolini's political film. Visceral and passionate, "Hold Everything Dear" is a profound meditation on what political resistance means today, by one of the most compelling radical voices of our age.
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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Thank you John Berger,
By Index Research (Sussex, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hold Everything Dear: Despatches on Survival and Resistance (Hardcover)
Thank you John Berger for ALL your books. Especial thanks for 'Hold Everything Dear'- Dispatches on Survival and Resistance. This book opens with a 12.05 essay: "Everywhere one goes in Palestine - even in rural areas - one finds oneself amongst rubble, picking a way through round and over it." After recently watching Gaza's destruction by war criminals 18/24 on al jazeera, this is sadly even more true today. Some essays end with "The stance of undefeated despair works like this." The 'undefeated despair' is a theme of Berger's book, illustrated with many beautiful poems. Berger stretches my soul, leads me to other authors. Berger writes from a mountain of courage, wisdom and great compassion. He much deserves the Nobel Literature Prize.
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From the two sides of a table,
This review is from: Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (Paperback)
John Berger writes about the expression of a Palestinian woman: "When it came to saying good-bye, the Aunt held my hand, and in her eyes, there was this same special expression of attention to the moment. If two people are laying a tablecloth on a table, they glance at one another to check the placing of the cloth. Imagine the table is the world and the cloth is the lives of those we have to save. Such was the expression". I think I know very well this expression. With Anastasia (my wife), numberless times we have stood face to face laying the cloth on a table for four. And living in a country recently struck by poverty (Greece), I think I know very well the meaning, too, of this expression. And what is a man who, to describe an expression, can think of the image of two people standing face to face to lay a tablecloth? A poet of course. But, also, a great man.
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4.6 out of 5 stars (5 customer reviews) 13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
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Embrace Berger Too,
By R. J MOSS - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (Hardcover)
One of the wisest voices of our time, John Berger, has pieced together 17 thoughts or, 'dispatches'(with its military connotations) about the post 9/11 environment which we now, all share. For most of his long life, Berger has sided with the powerless and dispossessed, even taking the step of quitting a high profile career in London, where he seemed to be at the cutting edge of art criticism with his ground-breaking,'Ways of Seeing' made for BBC T.V and never out of print in book form.He relocated in a peasant village in rural France, to immerse himself in what would form the subject of some of his most compelling writing.There has been no diminishing of power in his thought or eloquence as he gains his senior years. The Palestine issue, in particular, gets coverage. And he returne to the pitiless paintings of Francis Bacon for what I suspect will be his final published view of him. And there is a re-contexturalising of the great Piero Pasolini; Berger having just watched his 'La Rabbia'(how and where can I ever get to see this?). I guess, I wish the collection had more in it. But what is there is potent, direct and as usual, poetic. Which leads me to its title; not one of John's pieces, but the publication in its opening pages of a very beautiful poem by one, Gareth Evans. Have a squizz! For more on art visit>rodmoss.com
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good but enigmatic,
By Georgia - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (Hardcover)
I love reading John Berger. He is an original thinker.
I don't always agree with his point of view but I love to read it. This book was very moving at times but also very enigmatic. I think that Mr. Berger is such a sensitive man that art criticism offers a safer space, than political discourse,to provide a more succinct point of view. I felt when reading his book the human tragedy that is going on now in the middle east is so hard to believe even when one is a witness to it.
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One of the best writers of his generation,
By Rudy Andrews "Rudy Andrews" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance (Vintage International) (Paperback)
A must read! Each essay is packed with such eloquence and depth that it is hard not to reread them several times, as one would do with poetry, just to make sure the full intent of the author is grasped.
This is a must for lovers of contemporary literature, devotees of current events and modern political thought. A beautiful piece of literature. |
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