Title: By Then - John Berger - book
Summary :
Translated from English by Katya Berger Andreadakis
In Lisbon, at the corner of a street, John Berger meets his mother, who has been dead for fifteen years. She accompanies him on a stroll among the colorful azulejos and tells him about her first love. In Krakow, in the maze of a market, he sees Ken, his "ferryman," the man thirty years his senior who taught him everything—how to paint, how to cheat at cards, how to drink—when he was a teenager. In Madrid, it's his old school teacher who reappears.
From here there is based on the power of literary imagination and the writer's gift of ubiquity: to be both here and there, among the living and the dead, in the present and in the past. By calling upon those who made him the man and the committed artist that he is, this novel sketches a portrait of its author.
