The Red Tenda of Bologna
The Red Tenda of Bologna

Author: John Berger

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 2018-02

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780241339015

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

It's an improbable city, Bologna - like one you might walk through after you have died.' A dreamlike meditation on memory, food, paintings, a fond uncle and the improbable beauty of Bologna, from the visionary thinker and art critic.

Confabulations
Confabulations

Author: John Berger

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2016-10-06

Total Pages: 91

ISBN-13: 0241292344

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'Language is a body, a living creature ... and this creature's home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate'. John Berger's work has revolutionized the way we understand visual language. In this new book he writes about language itself, and how it relates to thought, art, song, storytelling and political discourse today. Also containing Berger's own drawings, notes, memories and reflections on everything from Albert Camus to global capitalism, Confabulations takes us to what is 'true, essential and urgent'.

A Painter of Our Time
A Painter of Our Time

Author: John Berger

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2011-07-13

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0307794288

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From John Berger, the Booker Prize-winning author of G., A Painter of Our Time is at once a gripping intellectual and moral detective story and a book whose aesthetic insights make it a companion piece to Berger's great works of art criticism. The year is 1956. Soviet tanks are rolling into Budapest. In London, an expatriate Hungarian painter named Janos Lavin has disappeared following a triumphant one-man show at a fashionable gallery. Where has he gone? Why has he gone? The only clues may lie in the diary, written in Hungarian, that Lavin has left behind in his studio. With uncanny understanding, John Berger has written oneo f hte most convincing portraits of a painter in modern literature, a revelation of art and exile.

Piers of the Homeless Night
Piers of the Homeless Night

Author: Jack Kerouac

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 44

ISBN-13: 0241339197

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'See my hand up-tipped, learn the secret of my human heart...' Soaring, freewheeling snapshots of life on the road across America, from the Beat writer who inspired a generation. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

I Have More Souls Than One
I Have More Souls Than One

Author: Fernando Pessoa

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780241339602

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Written in the voices of four different alter egos, these verses express a maelstrom of conflicted thoughts and feelings

The Three Electroknights
The Three Electroknights

Author: Stanislaw Lem

Publisher: Penguin Classics

Published: 2018-02-22

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780241339398

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

'What use to a being that lives beneath a sun are jewels of gas and silver stars of ice?' From a giant of twentieth-century science fiction, these four miniature space epics feature crazy inventors, surreal worlds, robot kings and madcap machines. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.