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John Berger and Me
- biography
- Categories:Memoirs
- Language:English（Translation Services Available）
- Publication date:August,2024
- Pages:206
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- Publication Place:Australia
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Review
This is a book about love, about love in all its forms: the love between a parent and child, a student and a mentor, and most profoundly, the love between friends. The pleasures of camaraderie and the tenderness of affection are threaded throughout a book in which theory never undermines the radical hope of friendship. It’s a glorious homage and glorious book.
——Christos Tsiolkas
A supple and luminous book, John Berger and Me interweaves two lives – the subject, now an icon, a visionary thinker, artist and writer, and the author’s own fascinating journey from his immigrant, working-class roots to public intellectual. Compellingly written, interweaving memory, portraiture, autobiography and the history of ideas, John Berger and Me is above all about memory. In tracing their lives together, Papastergiadis delicately unfurls stories of his own ancestors and family. A lyrical and subtle homage, in its pages Berger is as present as you can be in a work of literature – a floating, live ghost. Above all, Papastergiadis has written a perceptive and illuminating narrative about the power of art to not only reflect or represent reality, but to create it.
——Jean McNeil
A remarkable book drawing on a close relationship of over twenty years. Two lives, historically entwined and beautifully told through careful observation and detail… a book for our time.
——Huw Beynon
——Christos Tsiolkas
A supple and luminous book, John Berger and Me interweaves two lives – the subject, now an icon, a visionary thinker, artist and writer, and the author’s own fascinating journey from his immigrant, working-class roots to public intellectual. Compellingly written, interweaving memory, portraiture, autobiography and the history of ideas, John Berger and Me is above all about memory. In tracing their lives together, Papastergiadis delicately unfurls stories of his own ancestors and family. A lyrical and subtle homage, in its pages Berger is as present as you can be in a work of literature – a floating, live ghost. Above all, Papastergiadis has written a perceptive and illuminating narrative about the power of art to not only reflect or represent reality, but to create it.
——Jean McNeil
A remarkable book drawing on a close relationship of over twenty years. Two lives, historically entwined and beautifully told through careful observation and detail… a book for our time.
——Huw Beynon
Feature
★Awarded "2025 Michael Crouch Prize". It is award given to an outstanding first publication in the field of biography, autobiography or memoir.
★Shortlisted for "2025 National Biography Award" in Australia. Since its establishment in 1996, the National Biography Award has been one of the highest honors in the field of biographical, autobiographical, and memoir writing in Australia.
★This is a memoir written by the distinguished Australian sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis, documenting his decade-long deep friendship with the late British writer and art critic John Berger. The book not only showcases the personal charm of the two intellectuals but also presents a touching story about art, culture, and humanity through their interactions.
★This book is both a biography of John Berger and an autobiography of Papastergiadis. Through the shared experiences of the two authors, the book portrays a profound friendship that transcends culture, age, and background, while also paying tribute to one of the most outstanding cultural thinkers of the modern era John Berger.
★Shortlisted for "2025 National Biography Award" in Australia. Since its establishment in 1996, the National Biography Award has been one of the highest honors in the field of biographical, autobiographical, and memoir writing in Australia.
★This is a memoir written by the distinguished Australian sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis, documenting his decade-long deep friendship with the late British writer and art critic John Berger. The book not only showcases the personal charm of the two intellectuals but also presents a touching story about art, culture, and humanity through their interactions.
★This book is both a biography of John Berger and an autobiography of Papastergiadis. Through the shared experiences of the two authors, the book portrays a profound friendship that transcends culture, age, and background, while also paying tribute to one of the most outstanding cultural thinkers of the modern era John Berger.
Description
The memoir of a deep friendship between two important intellectual figures bound by their interest in art and their experience of migration.
In John Berger and Me, the eminent Australian sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis recalls his relationship with the late English writer and art critic John Berger. His memoir is both a portrait of their friendship, and an account of the work of his former mentor, one which combines Berger’s abiding interest in migrants and migration, with Papastergiadis’s reflections on his own family’s experience of migration.
Berger was a successful author and artist who lived in England before he moved to a peasant village in the Haute-Savoie. Papastergiadias’s father was born in a peasant village in Greece and migrated to work in factories in Australia. The memoir covers a period of ten years in the 1990s when the younger Nikos spent many summer months with the distinguished author, living in the family house and sharing duties such as the gathering of the harvest. It draws on personal memories, his deep knowledge of Berger’s work, which was the subject of his doctoral thesis, and anecdotes of life in the village, and beyond. The intertwining of their common experiences means that the book is both a biography and an autobiography, as well as a tribute to one of the most significant cultural thinkers of recent times.
In John Berger and Me, the eminent Australian sociologist Nikos Papastergiadis recalls his relationship with the late English writer and art critic John Berger. His memoir is both a portrait of their friendship, and an account of the work of his former mentor, one which combines Berger’s abiding interest in migrants and migration, with Papastergiadis’s reflections on his own family’s experience of migration.
Berger was a successful author and artist who lived in England before he moved to a peasant village in the Haute-Savoie. Papastergiadias’s father was born in a peasant village in Greece and migrated to work in factories in Australia. The memoir covers a period of ten years in the 1990s when the younger Nikos spent many summer months with the distinguished author, living in the family house and sharing duties such as the gathering of the harvest. It draws on personal memories, his deep knowledge of Berger’s work, which was the subject of his doctoral thesis, and anecdotes of life in the village, and beyond. The intertwining of their common experiences means that the book is both a biography and an autobiography, as well as a tribute to one of the most significant cultural thinkers of recent times.
Author
Nikos Papastergiadis studied at the University of Melbourne and University of Cambridge. He was previously a lecturer and the Simon Fellow at the University of Manchester. His current research focuses on the investigation of the historical transformation of contemporary art and cultural institutions by digital technology. He is the director of the Research Unit in Public Culture at the University of Melbourne, Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, Fellow of the Cambridge Commonwealth Trust, Visiting Professor in the Art, Design and Media School at NTU Singapore, and co-chair of the Greek Centre for Contemporary Culture. He has been the author or editor of over three dozen books. His latest book is John Berger and Me (Giramondo 2024), a biography and memoir.
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