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"powerful polemicist and precise poet." The Times "Any book by John Berger is an event... admirers will recognize the characteristic blend of sympathy and lucidity, directness of address, human warmth, and cosmopolitan example." Times Literary Supplement "Berger is never less than eloquent... a heartfelt advocate of those without hope." Metro"
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"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, it is a profound meditation on what political resistance means today, by one of the most compelling radical voices of our age. Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include "Ways of Seeing", the fiction trilogy "Into Their Labours" and, most recently, "Here Is Where We Meet".
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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Format: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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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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23 Nov 2007
Format: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
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
good but enigmatic
10 Oct 2007
Format: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.
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.
One of the best writers of his generation
5 Dec 2010
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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.
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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