Pages of the Wound

John Berger 1994 Pages of the Wound - 1st edition

Pages of the Wound, book of poems, drawings and photographs 1956-96 by John Berger, first limited edition in 1994, paperback edition in 1996.

Pages of the Wound is the result of a collaboration between John Christie, who printed the original book at Circle Press, and John Berger. This is a collection of his poems, drawings and photographs. It includes 46 poems written between 1956 and 1994. “At Remaurian”, a sequence of poems from the early 1960s is accompanied by nine photographs taken by Berger. There are two gate-fold triptychs of drawings, as well as a self-portrait made in 1945 when Berger was an art student.

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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.