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The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled ‘What Time Is It?’, now posthumously published. Berger died before it was completed, but the text has been assembled and illustrated by his longtime collaborator and friend Selçuk Demirel, and has an introduction by Maria Nadotti.
This latest collection of walking literature from Notting Hill Editions celebrates the allure of the Continent.On foot the world comes our way. We get close to the Continent’s alpine ranges, arterial rivers, expansive coastlines. Close to its ancient cities and mysterious thoroughfares; and close to the walkers themselves?the Grand Tourers and explorers, strollers and saunterers, on their hikes and quests, parades and urban drifts.Sauntering features sixty walker-writers?classic and current?who roam Europe by foot. Twenty-two countries are traversed. We join Henriette d’Angeville, the second woman to climb Mont Blanc; Nellie Bly roaming the trenches of the First World War; Werner Herzog on a personal pilgrimage through Germany; Hans Christian Andersen in quarantine; Joseph Conrad in Cracow; Rebecca Solnit reimagining change on the streets of Prague; and Robert Macfarlane dropping deep into underground Paris.Con
Following the success of ‘Cataract’, John Berger, one of the great soothsayers of seeing, joins forces again with Turkish illustrator Selçuk Demirel. This charming pictorial essay reflects on the cultural implications of smoking.
Michel de Montaigne is one of the founding fathers of the essay. Retreating to his châteaux to write (and often neglecting his estate duties), Montaigne pondered the great and small questions of life. Throught his essays he attempted to reach a deeper understanding of himself, and in doing so, touches on the greater human condition. Always curious, Montaigne ponders subjects as diverse as education, fear, reading and death. His ideas and the charm of his writing continue to captivate modern readers.
Reality versus fiction is at the heart of the current literary debate. We live in a world of docu-drama, the ‘real life’ story. Works of art, novels, films, are frequently bolstered by reference to the autobiography of the creator, or to underlying ‘fact’. Where does that leave the imagination? And who gets to define the parameters of ‘reality’ and ‘fiction’ anyway? Five writers debate the limits of materialism and realism, in art and literature – and offer a passionate defence of the alchemical imagination in a fact-based world.
Woolf responds passionately to those writers – past, present – who deal honestly with the reader, who express their own variations on the ‘I am I’ – the selective vision of the finite self.
You’ve paid money for this book, or you have family or friends who don’t mind your borrowing or who gift books like this. You are being attentive because you’re interested in what type of person this gifter thinks you are – too attentive, to them, to yourself, or too inattentive.
Perec was a leading exponent of French literary surrealism who found humour – and pathos – in the human need for classification. Thoughts of Sorts is itself unclassifiable, a unique collection of philosophical riffs on his obsession with lists, puzzles, catalogues, and taxonomies. Introduced by Margaret Drabble.
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