A Seventh Man
A Book of Images and Words about the Experience of Migrant Workers in Europe
$17.39
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
13 January 2026
Summary
Today, more than ever, people are crossing Europe in search of work. They are often portrayed as peasants, or unreliable day laborers. But what does the Western world look to migrant laborers? Why are they forced to perform the most menial tasks? What compels people to leave their homes and accept this humiliating situation? In A Seventh Man, John Berger and Jean Mohr opens up the world of what it is to be a migrant worker—the material circumstances and the inner experience—and, in d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781804298565 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1804298565 |
| Author: | John Berger |
| Publisher: | Verso Books |
| Imprint: | Verso Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 13 January 2026 |
| Weight: | 207g |
| Dimensions: | 16mm x 129mm x 198mm |
| Series: | The Essential John Berger |
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Critics Review
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 *
John Berger
Storyteller, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, John Berger (1926-2017) was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing; the fiction trilogy Into Their Labours; Here Is Where We Meet; the Booker Prize-winning novel G; Hold Everything Dear; the Man Booker-longlisted From A to X; and A Seventh Man.
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