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Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
John Berger
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Description for Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
Paperback. A powerful meditation on political resistance from one of the most original and influential thinkers of our times Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: 1FBH; 1FBP; HBJF1; HBLX; HPS; JPWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 14. Weight in Grams: 178.
From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despair. Looking at Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq, he makes an impassioned attack on the poverty and loss of freedom at the heart of such unnecessary suffering. These essays offer reflections on the political at the core of artistic expression and even at the center of human existence itself.
From the War on Terror to resistance in Ramallah and traumatic dislocation in the Middle East, Berger explores the uses of art as an instrument of political resistance. Visceral and passionate, Hold Everything Dear is a profound meditation on the far extremes of human behaviour, and the underlying despair. Looking at Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq, he makes an impassioned attack on the poverty and loss of freedom at the heart of such unnecessary suffering. These essays offer reflections on the political at the core of artistic expression and even at the center of human existence itself.
Product Details
Publisher
Verso Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781784783723
SKU
V9781784783723
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About John Berger
Storyteller, novelist, essayist, 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, Here Is Where We Meet, the Booker Prize-winning novel G, Hold Everything Dear, the Man Booker-longlisted From A to X, and A Seventh Man.
Reviews for Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
One of the most influential intellectuals of our time. - Observer I admire and love John Berger's books ... Not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience. He is a wonderful artist and thinker. - Susan Sontag John Berger teaches us ... Read more