Confabulations, last book of essays and drawings by John Berger before his death in 2017, first edition in 2016.
«Language is a body, a living creature … and this creature’s home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate. »
John Berger writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and political discourse today. Also containing Berger’s own drawings, notes, memories and reflections on everything from Albert Camus to global capitalism, Confabulations takes us to what is “true, essential and urgent”.
« I have been asking myself whether natural forms – a tree, a cloud, a river, a stone, a flower – can be looked at and perceived as messages. Is it possible to « read » natural appearances as texts?»
« What has prompted me to write over the years is the hunch that something needs to be told and that, if I don’t try to tell it, it risks not being told. I picture myself not so much a consequential, professional writer, as a stop-gap man. »
