Perhaps John Berger’s closest equivalent in the US is Susan Sontag. They were
friends perhaps linked by
being uncompromising public intellectuals operating in cultures generaly
unsympathetic to intellectuals (though
Berger made his home in rural France). Both were also ambitious novelists who
... and a rare occasion to see and hear Berger speak - he gave almost no
interviews in his later years:
http://www.arte.tv/guide/de/062921-000-A/john-berger-oder-die-kunst-des-sehens
(luckily, much of this recent German-French documentary is subtitled)
-a
Am 02.01.17 um 20:53 schrieb Felix
John Berger is dead. He died today, at the age of 90. Orbits are surely
being written right now. However, Sally Potter's birthday thoughts
from last November seem a more apt and personal way of remembering.
"Ways of Seeing was, together with Robert Hughes' "Shock of the New",
one of the first
