| What Time Is It? Contributor(s): Berger, John (Author), Demirel, Selçuk (Illustrator), Nadotti, Maria (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1912559145 ISBN-13: 9781912559145 Publisher: Notting Hill Editions OUR PRICE: $18.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Time - Literary Collections | Essays - Art | Popular Culture |
| Dewey: 115 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 4.7" W x 7.4" (0.40 lbs) 120 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Patience, patience, because the great movements of history have always begun in those small parenthesis that we call 'in the meantime.'" --John Berger The last book that John Berger wrote was this precious little volume about time titled What Time Is It?, now posthumously published for the first time in English by Notting Hill Editions. Berger died before it was completed, but the text has been assembled and illustrated by his longtime collaborator and friend Sel uk Demirel, and has an introduction by Maria Nadotti. What Time Is It? is a profound and playful meditation on the illusory nature of time. Berger, the great art critic and Man Booker Prize-winning author, reflects on what time has come to mean to us in modern life. Our perception of time assumes a uniform and ceaseless passing of time, yet time is turbulent. It expands and contracts according to the intensity of the lived moment. We talk of time "saved" in a hundred household appliances; time, like money, is exchanged for the content it lacks. Berger posits the idea that time can lengthen lifetimes once we seize the present moment. "What-is-to-come, what-is-to-be-gained empties what-is." |