John Berger 1926 – 2017

By runger January 12, 2017 Obituaries

Dearest Family,

It is with deep sadness that I must report that my brother John aged 90 died peacefully at his home in Paris on Monday, 2nd January 2017.
In John’s latest book Confabulations he writes ‘Language is a body, a living creature…. and this creature’s home is the inarticulate as well as the articulate.’
 
He goes on to say ‘What has prompted me to write over the years is the hunch that something needs to be told and that, if I don’t try to tell it, it risks not being told.’
 
Thank you dear John for what you have told us.
 
Thank you also dear John for being such a good listener.
You are remembered by many as a great storyteller, but were you not a good listener, there would have been few stories to tell.
 
Finally, I thank you dear brother for just being by my side for over eighty five years, with your guidance and support, your volcanic laugh and most importantly your love.
 
May you now rest in Peace !

 

I have no doubt that many of you may have read some of the Obituaries in the press and in the social media but the one in the Telegraph is in my opinion one of the best and the most accurate which is why I set out below a link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/01/03/john-berger…

 

Also in my opinion there is an excellent Postscript in the New Yorker Magazine 6th January :