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"I think the dead are with us": John Berger at 88
Maughan, Philip http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/06/i-think-dead-are-us-john-berger-88
Publisher: New Statesman
Date Written: 11/06/2015
Year Published: 2015
Resource Type: Article
A brief biography and recounting of a meeting by the author with the late author John Berger.
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Berger's influence in the literary and wider artistic worlds is a little easier to measure. "He is the lodestar of the contemporary literary experience," the Irish novelist Colum McCann tells me. "I cannot imagine my bookshelves without him. The other writers would collapse." Susan Sontag described him as "peerless" for his ability to merge "attentiveness to the sensual world" with "the imperatives of conscience", though Berger himself prefers to be described, simply, as "a storyteller". Social and political commentary, subjective response and aesthetic theory are the basic elements of much of what he writes - but it all begins with seeing.
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