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A Painter of Our Time

A Novel

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Author John Berger
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Knopf | Vintage
On sale Aug 27, 1996 | 208 Pages | 978-0-679-73723-0
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The year is 1956. Soviet tanks are rolling into Budapest. In London, an expatriate Hungarian painter, Janos Lavin, has disappeared following a triumphant one-man show. Where has he gone and why? The only clues may lie in his diary. In his urgent and visionary first novel, Berger creates a multilayered intellectual and moral detective story. Lavin's diaries suggest far more than the motives for his disappearance: they also reveal the ways in which a man may reconcile the solitary call of art with the demands of conscience.
© Jean Mohr
John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently and moved to a small village in the French Alps.  He died in 2017.  View titles by John Berger

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The year is 1956. Soviet tanks are rolling into Budapest. In London, an expatriate Hungarian painter, Janos Lavin, has disappeared following a triumphant one-man show. Where has he gone and why? The only clues may lie in his diary. In his urgent and visionary first novel, Berger creates a multilayered intellectual and moral detective story. Lavin's diaries suggest far more than the motives for his disappearance: they also reveal the ways in which a man may reconcile the solitary call of art with the demands of conscience.

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© Jean Mohr
John Berger was born in London in 1926. He is well known for his novels and stories as well as for his works of nonfiction, including several volumes of art criticism. His first novel, A Painter of Our Time, was published in 1958, and since then his books have included Ways of Seeing, the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours, and the novel G., which won the Booker Prize in 1972. In 1962 he left Britain permanently and moved to a small village in the French Alps.  He died in 2017.  View titles by John Berger

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