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G.: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Winner)
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"Fascinating...an extraordinary mixture of historical detail and sexual meditation...G. belongs in the tradition of George Eliot, Tolstoy, D. H. Lawrence and Norman Mailer." -- The New York Times
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John Berger's "G" is one of the stranger novels of the 20th century, and certainly one of the strangest to capture the Booker prize. Putatively a retelling of the Don Juan myth, Berger's account of the eponymous anti-hero's sexual conquests also unwraps the history of the opening decades of the 20th century. The novel could be considered postmodern in structure and style, but its spirit belongs to both the social novels of the 19th century, and to the Marxian-inspired cultural criticism of Berger's critical works. The book seems to redeem the promise of his oft-quoted line, that "never again will a single story be told as though it were the only one." This approach fractures the narrative, between G's story, long digressions on the history of flight, the Italian working class and Italian nationalism, as well as Berger's own musings on sex, history and death. The novel can be a hard slog but the payoff is immense. It captures, without the pomposity or pedantry of recent postmodern "total" novels, the whole breadth of the experience of an individual human life.
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ISBN:
9780679736547
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Trade Paperback
Publication date:
01/08/1992
Publisher:
Vintage
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Vintage International
Language:
English
Pages:
336
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.75IN
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5.17IN
Thickness:
.75
LCCN:
91050094
Number of Units:
1
Copyright Year:
1972
Series Volume:
970
UPC Code:
2800679736549
Author:
John Berger
Editor:
J. Laslocky
Author:
John Berger
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Historical fiction
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Europe
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Fiction
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Trieste (Italy) History Fiction.
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Literature-A to Z
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Italy
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Man-woman relationships -- Fiction.
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Man-woman relationships
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Trieste
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