Short Stories




  • 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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  • Photocopies

    Book 1996
    Art, Books, Drawing, Essays, Exhibitions, Short Stories

    Photocopies, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 1996.
    This is a collection of portraits of a shepherd, a farmer, a painter and blind man, a sylph of Byzantine arrogance and a vagabond cyclist with primroses growing in her basket. The backgrounds range from Prague, Paris, Athens, Lahore and countrysides and mountainscapes.
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  • The Shape of a Pocket

    Book 2001
    Books, Essays, Painting, Short Stories

    The Shape of a Pocket, book of essays by John Berger, first edition in 2001.
    John Berger writes: “The pocket in question is a small pocket of resistance. A pocket is formed when two or more people come together in agreement. The resistance is against the inhumanity of the new world economic order. The people coming together are the reader, me and those the essays are about – Rembrandt, Palaeolithic cave painter…
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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.