Beschreibung:
John Berger, geb. 1926 in London, gest. am 2. Januar 2017.Er absolvierte ein Kunststudium und war dann Zeichenlehrer und Maler mit mehreren erfolgreichen Ausstellungen. In den fünfziger Jahren beteiligte er sich an der internationalen Kampagne "Artists for Peace". Seine Kunstkritiken erschienen in zahlreichen Zeitschriften. Außerdem arbeitete er für das Fernsehen und schrieb Drehbücher. 1989 erhielt Berger den Österreichischen Staatspreis für Publizistik. Für sein Werk erhielt John Berger 1991 den Petrarca-Preis.
In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But Suse is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity - an intimate dance, a shared meal - assume for A'ida a life-affirming significance, acts of resistance against the forces that might otherwise extinguish them. From A to X is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.
In the dusty, ramshackle town of Suse lives A'ida. Her insurgent husband Xavier has been imprisoned. Resolute, sensuous and tender, A'ida's letters to the man she loves tell of daily events in the town, and of its motley collection of inhabitants whose lives flow through hers. But Suse is under threat, and as a faceless power inexorably encroaches from outside, so the smallest details and acts of humanity - an intimate dance, a shared meal - assume for A'ida a life-affirming significance, acts of resistance against the forces that might otherwise extinguish them. "From A to X" is a powerful exploration of how humanity affirms itself in struggle: imagining a community which, besieged by economic and military imperialism, finds transcendent hope in the pain and fragility, vulnerability and sorrow of daily existence.