Quincy

Annemasse exhibition: «Des fruits…»

Jun 02 2023

HEAD-Geneva (art school) students’ exhibition around John Berger at Villa du Parc, Annemasse (beside Geneva, Haute-Savoie, France)After their class «Expose John Berger» leaded by Aurélie Pétrel and Garance Chabert, 20 students proposed the collective exhibition «Des fruits tels que s’en souviennent les morts». John’s work inspired a great diversity of creations, some were very subtile for exemple the on…
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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.
More informations about John Berger’s theatrical adaptations.
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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

Books, Animals, 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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Le Blaireau et le Roi

Book 2010

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger

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).
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Flying Skirts

Book 2010

Books, Collaborations, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Poetry, Quincy, Tributes, Yves Berger

Flying Skirts book by Yves and John Berger as an elegy to Beverly Bancroft (1942-2014), first edition in 2015. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for Éditions L’Olivier (2015).
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Over To You

Book 2019

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Family, Katya Berger Andreadakis, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger

Over To You correspondence book of texts and images by Yves and John Berger, first edition in french in 2019, in english in 2024. Translated in French by Katya Berger Andreadakis for L’Atelier contemporain (2019).
Compelling and intimate, this collection of never-before-seen letters between the celebrated art critic and essayist, John Berger and his son Yves, an artist, is a moving look at their musings on art,…
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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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Par La Fenêtre

Book 2009

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger

Par La Fenêtre, exhibition catalog by Yves and John Berger, edited by Emmanuel Favre in link with their exhibition at Galerie Josephski-Neukum (2009, Issing, Germany).
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Desde el taller

Book 2015

Art, Books, Collaborations, Contemporary art, Drawing, Exhibitions, Family, Letters, Painting, Quincy, Yves Berger

Desde el taller , dialog between Yves and John Berger with Emmanuel Favre, drawings by Yves and John Berger, edited in 2015.
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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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Japan Screenings: Four Seasons in Quincy

Mar 14 2025

Thanks to Sungwon Kim, translator of A Seventh Man (1975) published by blkswn publishing in 2024, Theatre Image Forum Shibuya proposes screenings of The Seasons in Quincy: Four portraits of John Berger, documentary directed by Tilda Swinton, Colin MacCabe and Christopher Roth, produced by the Derek Jarman Lab and the University of Pittsburgh.
From 24th of May 2025 in Tokyo for 7 screenings, last one in …
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Podcast Premières Saisons

Nov 20 2025

The Swiss publisher Héros Limite has released a two-episode podcast by Clara Alloing and Alma Palacios about John’s trilogy INTO THEIR LABOURS (1979-1980). The two authors interviewed John’s neighbors in Mieussy (French Alps) as well as Yves Berger, to whose voices they added sound archives and readings by…
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Do you know what I watch?

Jun 25 2026

Animal traces in John Berger’s work
* Version française ci-dessous *
“Do you know what I watch?” is a choral reading devised by Katya Berger-Andreadakis. It will be read in several places by Katya, Jacob and Yves Berger, John Berger’s children. A family contribution to this centenary.
There is hardly any book of John Berger’s that doesn’t include a few pages about animals. Both as a writer and …
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