Photocopies: Encounters
As well known for his art criticism as his novels, which includePig EarthandTo the Wedding, John Berger brings a visual acumen to his prose.  And as a Marxist living among French peasantry, his politics inform his writing as well.  The three--visual art, Marxist politics, poetic fiction--combine in these stories, or rather "memory visions," in a most effective way.  The resulting alloy is larger than the elements, a beautiful and lyrical collection of narrative strands, frugal and melancholoy in tone.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.