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Confabulations

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141984957

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 183mm x 12mm x 121mm

  • Weight: 202g

  • RRP: £7.99

Confabulations

'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and political discourse today. Also containing Berger's own drawings, notes, memories and reflections on everything from Albert Camus to global capitalism, Confabulations takes us to what is 'true, essential and urgent'.

  • Imprint: Penguin

  • ISBN: 9780141984957

  • Length: 160  Pages

  • Dimensions: 183mm x 12mm x 121mm

  • Weight: 202g

  • RRP: £7.99

Reviews

  • His writing ... has changed the way many of us see the world ... Berger has that rare and wonderful gift of being able to make complex thoughts simple

    Kate Kellaway, Observer

  • John Berger teaches us how to think, how to feel, how to stare at things till we see what we thought wasn't there. But above all he teaches us how to love in the face of adversity. He is a master

    Arundhati Roy

  • One of the greatest thinkers in postwar Britain

    Guardian

  • He handles thoughts the way an artist handles paint

    Jeanette Winterson

  • Berger is terrific ... Brilliant

    Scotsman

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About the Author

John Berger

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, to live in a small village in the French Alps. He died in 2017.

John Berger

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