The Red Tenda of Bologna

The Red Tenda of Bologna
Author: John Berger
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Total Pages: 64
Release: 2018-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9780241339015

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
Total Pages: 91
Release: 2016-10-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0241292344

'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
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2011-07-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0307794288

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.

Glittering City

Glittering City
Author: Cyprian Ekwensi
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0241339855

'"Forget all your fears now. Have a fling this night"' Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the 'sensational city' of 1960s Lagos. 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
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780241339602

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

Piers of the Homeless Night

Piers of the Homeless Night
Author: Jack Kerouac
Publisher: Penguin UK
Total Pages: 44
Release: 2018-02-22
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 0241339197

'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.