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    Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance

    By John Berger

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    From a Booker Prize-winning author and one of the most impassioned of writers of our time, this powerful collection of essays offers a stark portrait of post-9/11 realities. John Berger occupies a unique position in the international cultural landscape: artist, filmmaker, poet, philosopher, novelist, and essayist, he is also a deeply thoughtful political activist. In Hold Everything Dear, his artistry and activism meld in an attempt to make sense of the current state of our world.

     

    Berger analyzes the nature of terrorism and the profound despair that gives rise to it. He writes about the homelessness of millions who have been forced by poverty and war to live as refugees. He discusses Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, Serbia, Bosnia, China, Indonesia-anyplace where people are deprived of the most basic of freedoms. Berger powerfully acknowledges the depth of suffering around the world and suggests actions that might finally help bring it to an end.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
    Release dateMar 12, 2009
    ISBN9780307495877
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    Hold Everything Dear: Dispatches on Survival and Resistance
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    John Berger

    John Berger (Londres, 1926) se formó en la Central School of Arts de Londres. Después de dedicarse a dar clases de dibujo, comenzó a escribir crítica de arte y pronto cambió su registro por la novela, el ensayo, la poesía, el teatro y el guión cinematográfico y televisivo. Desde hace más de treinta años vive y trabaja en un pueblo de la Alta Saboya. Ha colaborado en diferentes proyectos con Jean Mohr, Alain Tunner, Nella Bielski, John Christie o su propia hija Katya. John Berger no considera la escritura como una profesión, sino como un modo de aproximación a lo experimentado. Entre sus estudios sobre arte traducidos al castellano se encuentran Mirar, Modos de ver y Otra manera de contar (con Jean Mohr), todos ellos publicados por Editorial Gustavo Gili.

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      This is such a pretty and satisfying book to hold in my hand, a light paperback clean white, font and punctuation the only marks. The prose reads exactly like the interview I once watched between John Berger and a young cultural critic from the BBC. Berger was older, had retired to the Alps, lived in a tiny village where the peasant occupants gave him joy and his table was covered in red gingham and he replied to the critic’s adulatory questions in a voice that measured moments, every word weighed, leaving quiet before giving answers if he needed to take time.
      If you measure the book thematically it is not connected but it clearly threads through the thoughts of one man over a certain decade. It isn’t strictly a linear decade but perhaps there is a certain decade of thought, dominated by 2001 at the center. “Twelve Theses on the Economy of the Dead” is either a religion or a writing prompt. “Undefeated Despair” is the only kind of travel writing I would like to read. “Where Are We?” diagnoses us. Of course the rest of them are good in one way or another, “From the human capacity to arrange, to place, come language and communication” (82). He has written some essays without concrete answers at the end and it is nice not to be told, neatly, what to think. This is a piece of mid-2000s, of all the despair that a soul feels when looking at what is happening, honestly, in the world at any moment one happens to be alive.
      “In our exchanges, such as they are, in the midday company we offer one another, there is a substratum of what I can only describe as gratitude.” 127. This is the whole of it—a set of essays, gratitude underneath.