He published his first novel, A Painter of our Time, in 1958. He began his career as a painter before turning to writing, becoming an art critic for the New Statesman. Nations ceased to be what they were before.”īerger was a lifelong Marxist, a vehement critic of capitalism. “It seems to me that we have to return, to recapitulate what globalisation meant, because it meant that capitalism, the world financial organisations, became speculative and ceased to be first and foremost productive, and politicians lost nearly all their power to take political decisions – I mean politicians in the traditional sense. It was from there he gave one of his final interviews with the Observer’s Kate Kellaway, giving his view, among other things, on the bigger picture around the Brexit vote. Virality is most valuable when the brand or product benefit is integral to the story. Stories Information travels under the guise of what seems like idle chatter. More recently he lived in Antony, a suburb of Paris. Of the six principles of contagiousness that Berger discusses in the book, Practical Value may be the easiest to apply. He was an energy source in a depleted world.- JEANETTE WINTERSON January 2, 2017īerger lived for many years in a remote farmhouse in the French Alps, to where the British Library’s Jamie Andrews had to travel when the institution acquired Berger’s literary archive in 2009.
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