John Berger (1926-2017), storyteller, essayist, screenwriter,
dramatist and critic, was one of the most internationally
influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include
Ways of Seeing (1972), the Booker prize-winning novel G (1972),
Here is Where We Meet (2005), From A to X (2008), Cataract (with
Sel uk Demirel) (2012) and most recently Confabulations (2016). He
died in January 2017.
Sel uk Demirel was born in Artvin, Turkey, in 1954. He trained as
an architect and moved to Paris in 1978, where he still lives. His
illustrations and books have appeared in many prominent European
and American publications. Demirel's work ranges from book
illustrations, magazine covers, children's books, and from
postcards to posters.
"In these pages, Demirel rather brilliantly provides images of
togetherness that make literal Berger’s language, albeit without
sentimentalizing it; these pictures recall a world that once had
coherent meaning...Berger and Demirel show that nearly anything can
be part of shared experience...Smoke, [Berger] concludes, is a
'sign of mankind'—evidence not of man’s endurance but of the
promise of companionship and stories shared." —Jonathon Sturgeon,
Art in America
“In contemporary English letters John Berger seems to me peerless.
Not since D. H. Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such
attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the
imperatives of conscience.” —Susan Sontag
“I love this small book of intricate insight.” —Michael Ondaatje,
(on Cataract)
“In his ceaselessly inventive work, Selçuk often uses parts of the
body in ways that are characteristically Turkish...as if the comedy
of the human condition were there in the human body, in the
melancholy of anatomy.” —John Berger, on Selçuk Demirel
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