THE SHAPE OF A POCKET

Sinopsis de THE SHAPE OF A POCKET

This volume of 24 essays--a decade's worth--by novelist and art critic John Berger includes his thoughts on various artists (Degas, Kahlo, Brancusi), rural living, and his own aging. The pocket referred to is "a small pocket of resistance," directed at, among other things, globalization and the destructive effect it is having on the world. Berger has long been a critic of global markets, and here sees the world they have created as a vision of hell like those of Hieronymus Bosch. Some of the essays are in the form of letters, and are more novelistic than many of his essays on art.