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En 1974, John Berger ponía los cimientos del que sería uno de los logros más admirados y aclamados de su narrativa: la trilogía De sus fatigas, en la que se relata el viaje de los campesinos europeos desde las montañas a la metrópolis, donde su modo de vida agoniza, herido de muerte. Puerca tierra presenta al lector los obstinados del éxodo rural, enfrentados día tras día al lugar indómito del que no quisieron o no lograron huir, mientras que Una vez en Europa narra el cadencioso goteo de todos los que poco a poco, sin heroicidad ni historia, abandonaron su pasado para adentrarse en la nueva civilización que se abría a lo lejos. Finalmente, Lila y Flag acompaña a los rezagados, a los que llegaron demasiado tarde a un nuevo mundo que había empezado su viaje sin ellos. Reseñas: «Como los grandes novelistas, Berger guía a sus personajes y a sus lectores con ternura y unhumor muy íntimo.» Michael Ondaatje «Poeta, novelista, ensayista y crítico de arte, toda su obra literaria es el testimonio de alguien que contempla un universo que se desvanece ante sus ojos.» El País
Author
John Peter Berger was an English art critic, novelist, painter and author. His novel G. won the 1972 Booker Prize, and his essay on art criticism Ways of Seeing, written as an accompaniment to a BBC series, is often used as a college text. Later he was self exiled to continental Europe, living between the french Alps in summer and the suburbs of Paris in winter. Since then, his production has increased considerably, including a variety of genres, from novel to social essay, or poetry. One of the most common themes that appears on his books is the dialectics established between modernity and memory and loss, Another of his most remarkable works has been the trilogy titled Into Their Labours, that includes the books Pig Earth (1979), Once In Europa (1983) Lilac And Flag (1990). With those books, Berger makes a meditation about the way of the peasant, that changes one poverty for another in the city. This theme is also observed in his novel King, but there his focus is more in the rural diaspora and the bitter side of the urban way of life.
