john berger

This Delve takes place online with Zoom teleconferencing. Participants will receive instructions for how to log on to the Zoom meeting. “I like quoting ancient verses when the occasion is apt.  I remember most of what I hear, and I listen all day but sometimes I do not know how to fit everything together.  When this happens I cling to words or phrases which seem to ring true.” So begins John Berger’s To the Wedding (1995), a modern fable, at once lyrical and realistic, of life affirmed amidst death, of significance fashioned where meaning may not be found.  Writing in the wake of the AIDs epidemic and amidst the moral fatigue of post-Cold War Europe, Berger’s story of the lovers Ninon and Gino invokes the…