John Berger was born on 5 November 1926 in London, son of S. J. D. Berger and Miriam Branson Berger. Twice married and the father of three children, he now lives in the French Jura. Berger has not con...
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John Berger is perhaps the most challenging British writer of his generation. Interdisciplinary, political, and always provocative in the deepest sense, Berger's writings in a wide variety of genres a...
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Critical Essay by George A. Silver
[A Fortunate Man is] a beautiful book, beautifully written, and illustrated with [Jean Mohr's] striking, movingly apt photographs. Its beauty should occasion ...
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Critical Essay by William Scammell
Whereas dandies like Nabokov flaunt syntax and diction like a cardinal his robe, the 'socially committed' are grammatical ironsides; dependent clauses ...
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Critical Essay by Fred Pfeil
Since the publication in this country of John Berger's prizewinning novel G. in 1972, his reputation here among leftists, and leftist artists especially, has grown ...
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Critical Essay by John Leonard
John Berger is an amalgam as odd as his strange new book…. "Pig Earth" is the first of a trilogy of fictions he will publish under the general title...
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Critical Essay by Yorick Blumenfeld
Art and Revolution, while purporting to be a book on [Soviet sculptor Ernst] Neizvestny and the role of the artist in the U.S.S.R., actually is a brilliant chapter ...
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Critical Essay by Karl Miller
[G] can be quite sententious, and there is some fine writing here which creates doubts: what does it mean to credit someone with absolute desires who has been declared to...
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Critical Essay by John Naughton
It is difficult to know how to describe John Berger's [A Seventh Man]. The cover proclaims it to be 'the story of a migrant worker in Europe', whil...
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Critical Essay by Paul Delany
In his commitment to a dialectic view of reality [John Berger] involves the reader in a scrupulous working out of interlocking contradictions, rather than in ritual affir...
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Critical Essay by Robert Seidman
Of all socialist artists, Berger is the most powerfully engaging. He recognizes, as few others have, how generative and dramatic dialectic can be…. A Seventh Ma...
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Critical Essay by Terry Eagleton
To write convincingly of peasants, not least if you once produced a book on Picasso, would seem as doomed a literary enterprise as creating Trotskyite love-lyrics. For...
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Critical Essay by John Ryle
There is no longer an English peasantry. John Berger lives and works in a French peasant community and Pig Earth is the first fruits of his labours there. It is a very stri...
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John (Peter) Berger
