The Red Tenda of Bologna: John Berger

Berger, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0241339014 ISBN 13: 9780241339015

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2018

'It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.'

A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the visionary thinker and art critic.

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L'autore:

John Berger was born in London in 1926. 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. In 1962 he left Britain permanently, and he now lives in a small village in the French Alps.