A Painter of our Time

John Berger

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1844676390 ISBN 13: 9781844676392

Casa editrice: Verso, 2010

Exiled in London, the Hungarian artist Janos Lavin disappears one day, into thin air. His journal offers his friend John the only clues to where he has gone, and why. John Berger's first novel is a passionate exploration of the artistic process, and a gripping detective story.

Recensione:

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... He is a wonderful artist and thinker. --Susan Sontag

One day I discovered another hero, John Berger. I sat and read his first novel, A Painter of Our Time. It simply took my breath away: all the oxygen was gone from the air. It was the first of my new way of seeing. --Colum McCann, Guardian

Dramatizes one of the cardinal dilemmas of our age. --New York Times

L'autore:

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, Booker winner G, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, Here Is Where We Meet and, most recently, Hold Everything Dear, the Booker long-listed From A to X: A Story in Letters and the acclaimed Bento's Sketchbook.