The writing career of Booker Prize winner John Bergerâ€“poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayistâ€“has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of

Selected Essays

The writing career of Booker Prize winner John Bergerâ€“poet, storyteller, playwright, and essayistâ€“has yielded some of the most original and compelling examinations of art and life of the past half century. In this essential volume, Geoff Dyer has brought together a rich selection of many of Bergerâ€™s seminal essays.

Bergerâ€™s insights make it impossible to look at a painting, watch a film, or even visit a zoo in quite the same way again. The vast range of subjects he addresses, the lean beauty of his prose, and the keenness of his anger against injustice move us to view the world with a new lens of awareness. Whether he is discussing the singleminded intensity of Picassoâ€™s Guernica, the parallel violence and alienation in the art of Francis Bacon and Walt Disney, or the enigmatic silence of his own mother, what binds these pieces throughout is the depth and fury of Bergerâ€™s passion, challenging us to participate, to protest, and above all, to see.

Selected Essays