Ben Lerner
Postscript: John Berger, 1926-2017
The New Yorker
Read Confabulations (Penguin Random House, 2016)
review by Kate Kallaway: 'People forget that Berger is funny. And curious. And that he listens – how he listens.'
Berger: “The way I observe comes naturally to me as a curious person – I’m like la vigie
– the lookout guy on a boat who does small jobs, maybe such as
shovelling stuff into a boiler, but I’m no navigator – absolutely the
opposite. I wander around the boat, find odd places – the masts, the
gunwale – and then simply look out at the ocean. Being aware of
travelling has nothing to do with being a navigator.”
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