Corker's Freedom
A powerfully unsettling, mordantly witty story about the pitfalls of free will. In the course of a day, the ageing owner of an employment agency is propelled into a fantasy world through his romantic yearnings and inarticulate dreams, seeking an illusory freedom from the bonds of responsibility.
Paperback, 240 pages
ISBN: 9781844676415
July 2010
£9.99
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John Berger at the BFI
To commemorate the 40th anniversary of John Berger's influential Ways of Seeing, the groundbreaking book and television series which have become staples of art critcism, the British Film Institute is staging a series of screenings and events based upon the author's small-screen films.
Berger's stunning series explored the history of representation in Western art, interrogating well-worn tropes of classical art education with a razor-sharp Marxist critique. The book and series cemented Berger's role as one of Britain's most lucid and engaging cultural critics, a role he continues to fill today with his challenging, sharply-written books on aesthetics, culture and contemporary politics, including Hold Everything Dear and Bento's Sketchbook.
As well as screening the original Ways of Seeing in it's entirety, the BFI season also features his early television work for BBC's Monitor and Granada TV, and runs throughout April. A selection of Berger's books will also be on sale at the event.
Visit BFI Online for more information on the series.
"Unremittingly humane": High praise for John Berger from the New Statesman and Times Literary Supplement
A Painter of Our Time and Corker's Freedom, two beautiful new editions of two of John Berger's early novels, gain praise and admiration from the New Statesman and Times Literary Supplement.
Max Saunders, reviewing for the the Times Literary Supplement, remarks "these reissues are a welcome reminder of the seriousness and versatility of Berger's contribution to British post-war fiction."
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Bento's Sketchbook
by John Berger
A meditation, in words and images, on the practice of drawing, by the author of Ways of Seeing.
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A Seventh Man
by John Berger
New edition of this seminal exploration of migrant workers.
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A Painter of our Time
by John Berger
A beautiful new edition of John Berger's first novel.
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From A to X
by John Berger
A beautifully imagined story of love and resistance, by one of the foremost novelists of our age.
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Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
by John Berger
A powerful meditation on political resistance from one of the most original and influential thinkers of our times.
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War With No End
by Phyllis Bennis, John Berger, et al.
Writers and activists consider the global consequences of the War on Terror.