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And our faces, my heart, brief as photos

And our faces, my heart, brief as photos

by John Berger, introduction by Richard Deming

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British & Irish Literature Essays & Criticism Literature in English
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'Those who read or listen to our stories see everything as though through a lens. This lens is the secret of narration, and it is ground anew in every story, ground between the temporal and the timeless ...In our brief mortal lives, we are grinders of these lenses'. When John Berger wrote this apparently unclassifiable book, it was to become a sensation, translated into nine languages and indelible from the minds of those who read it. This stunning work is a shoebox filled with delicate love letters containing poetry and thoughts on mortality, art, love, and absence, capturing moments in time that hover above Berger's surprising landscapes. From his lyrical description of the works of Caravaggio and profound explorations of death and immigration to the sight of some lilac at dusk in the mountains, this is a beautiful and most intimate response to the world around us.

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Series: NYRB Classics
ISBN: 9798896230571
Pages: 128
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Praise

Modest, uncontentious reflections on things personal and epochal—time and timelessness, love, home—by the noted Marxist critic of art and society....Explorations of Rembrandt, Van Gogh, and Caravaggio overlap with self-inscription.
—Kirkus

There is great stillness in Berger’s prose. But after a few pages, his statements start to sing and go on singing.
—New Republic

An elegant fusion of philosophy, memoir, and poetry.
—Jacob Brogan, The New Yorker

[John Berger] radically altered and enlarged my ideas of what a book could be.
—Geoff Dyer, The Guardian

[John Berger is] a great prose poet of homesickness, of the yearning to belong. Surging from the immediate and erotic to the historical and social, his vision is as grand as it is drastic
—Peter Schjeldahl, The New York Times

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