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John Berger, Hold Everything Dear

From:     book reviews
Category: Art
Date:     31 July 2008
Time:     01:33 PM

Review:

Decent book written in Berger's usual slightly wistful and elusive prose. You imagine Berger 
bestriding the globe talking to shepherds and gypsies and displaced people, reading them and their 
poetry, cooking a peasant stew, doing a sketch. Is he the ultimate right-on tourist, or someone who 
makes us aware of the suffering and brutal reach of capitalist exploitation.  A bit of both, what's the 
solution, can we all be Bergers living in the mountains, publishing  elegant books, painting. Perhaps.


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