Peasants

A Fortunate Man

Book 1967

Books, Collaborations, Doctor, Essays, Jean Mohr, Peasants, Photography, UK, Workers

A Fortunate Man : the story of a country doctor, first collaboration by John Berger (text) and Jean Mohr (photographs), first publication in 1967.
Berger’s exploration of what it means to heal. In 1966 John Berger spent three months in the Forest of Dean shadowing an English country GP, John Sassall. Sassall is a fortunate man – his work occupies and fulfils him, he lives amongst the patients he treats, the lin…
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TRILOGY Into Their Labours

Book 1992

Animals, Books, Countryside, France, Migrants, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Short Stories, Workers

Into Their Labours, trilogy by John Berger, first edition in 1992 : Pig Earth (1979), Once in Europa (1986) and Lilac and Flag (1990). A trilogy of novels that traces the journey of the European peasant from the mountains to the metropolis.
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Pig Earth

Book 1979

Animals, Books, France, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Short Stories, Workers

Pig Earth, book of novels by John Berger, first edition in 1979. First volume of his trilogy Into Their Labours (1992).
Set in a small village in the French Alps, Pig Earth relates the stories of sceptical, hard-working men and fiercely independent women. This book is an act of reckoning that conveys the precise wealth and weight of a world we are losing.
« The cow’s legs fold and her body collapses instan…
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Once in Europa

Book 1986

Animals, Books, France, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Short Stories, Workers

Once in Europa, book of novels by John Berger, first edition in 1982. Second volume of his trilogy Into Their Labours (1992).
A collection of interwoven stories, this is a portrait of two worlds – a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it – at their moment of collision. The instrument of entrapment is love. Lives are lost and hearts bro…
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Lilac and Flag

Book 1990

Books, Migrants, Novels, Peasants, Quincy, Workers

Lilac and Flag, novel by John Berger, first edition in 1990. Third and last volume of his trilogy Into Their Labours (1992).
In the mythic city of Troy, amidst the shanty-towns, factories, opulent hotels, fading heritages and steadfast dreams, the children and grandchildren of rural peasants pursue meagre livings as best they can. And two young lovers embark upon a passionate journey of love and survival.
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Another Way of Telling

Book 1982

Books, Collaborations, Essays, Jean Mohr, Peasants, Photography, Workers

Another Way of Telling, by John Berger (text) and Jean Mohr (photographs), first publication in 1982.
John Berger and Jean Mohr’s classic investigation into the nature of photography and what makes it so different from other art forms
The writer John Berger and the photographer Jean Mohr set out to understand the fundamental nature of photography and how it makes its impact. Asking a range of questions – W…
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John by Jean

Book 2016

About John Berger, Books, Collaborations, Countryside, Family, France, Jean Mohr, Peasants, Photography, Quincy, Tributes

John by Jean, Fifty Years of Friendship, edited by Jim Savage with Simone and Jean Mohr photographs, first publication in 2016.
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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 abo…
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