Into Their Labours meeting

Apr 25, 2024

In 1973, John Berger set up in Quincy in Giffre Valley to immerse himself into peasant world to write his trilogy Into Their Labours. The three books have been progressively published in french but the trilogy has been published for the first time in french only in 2024 by Éditions Héros Limite.

The 25th of April 2024, the Geneva publisher Alain Berset came to Giffre valley, at écomusée du Clos Parchet about mountain peasant world to present this new edition to previous John’s neighbours. They shared memories and stories which inspired John Berger to write his trilogy.

Dans Leur Travail, éditions Héros-Limite, 616 pages, Genève, 2023. https://heros-limite.com/livres/dans-leur-travail/

2024 Ecomusee Clos Parchet rencontre Alain Berset John Berger Mieussy Patrimoine © David Brun

John BERGER Dans Leur Travail 2024 © Editions Heros Limite John Berger Estate — John BERGER *Dans Leur Travail* 2024 © Editions Heros Limite John Berger Estate

Countryside, Events, France, Peasants, Quincy

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.