Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.

had been an infantry officer on the western front during the First World War. His recent novels include To the Wedding a love story dealing with the AIDS crisis stemming from his own familial experience and King: A Street Story a novel on homeless and shantytown life told from the perspective of a street dog. Berger O.

John Peter Berger (born 5 November 1926) is an English art critic novelist painter and poet. His novel G.