Le Blaireau et le Roi , book by Yves and John Berger, edited by Emmanuel Favre, first edition in 2010, in link with the exhibition Dans leur travail at Chartreuse de Mélan (2006 Taninges, France).
Le Blaireau et le Roi
JOHN BERGER
Storyteller, essayist, novelist, screenwriter, playwright, painter and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. Solo or in collaboration with Jean Mohr for example, he published more than 30 titles, the Booker Prize winning novel G and the best-seller Ways of Seeing. He has also published articles in the most important newspapers around the world.
He used to work and live in Quincy, a small French peasant community, the setting for his trilogy Into their Labours.
Painters, cineasts, writers, dancers, curators have been and are still inspired by his work, this website is a window on these TODAY creations.