“I admire and love John Berger’s books. He writes about what is important, not just interesting—in contemporary English letters, he seems to be peerless; not since Lawrence has there been a writer who offers such attentiveness to the sensual world with responsiveness to the imperatives of conscience. He is a wonderful artist and thinker.”
—Susan Sontag
“This book is ever more timely.”
—Geoff Dyer
“His most remarkable book”
—Economist
“I found opening A Seventh Man again troubling, even mournful. Because its prescience is matched by its nuance…This is why Berger is such a significant presence, still. He was a writer beyond the noble occupation of the critic, not just in the forms of literature he engaged in but in his wide-ranging, generation-traversing humanity.”
—Ben Luke, The Art Newspaper
“Today, A Seventh Man emerges as a prescient work, when read against a sea of startling images arriving all the time from Lesvos, Lampedusa, the US southern border, the Rafa? crossing. Yet the book is also of a piece with experimental art of its own era. Joshua Sperling, author of A Writer of Our Time, sees its abrupt cuts and shifts in perspective in the vein of Jean-Luc Godard and the militant Dziga Vertov Group.”
—Nicholas Gamso, e-flux
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