Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Once in Europa
    Unavailable
    Once in Europa
    Unavailable
    Once in Europa
    Ebook224 pages3 hours

    Once in Europa

    By John Berger

    4/5

    ()

    Unavailable in your country

    Unavailable in your country

    About this ebook

    A collection of interwoven stories, this is a portrait of two worlds - a small Alpine village bound to the earth and by tradition, and the restless, future-driven culture that will invade it - at their moment of collision. The instrument of entrapment is love. Lives are lost and hearts broken.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBloomsbury Publishing
    Release dateAug 30, 2014
    ISBN9781408859100
    Unavailable
    Once in Europa
    Author

    John Berger

    John Berger was one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing (1972), the Booker prize-winning novel G (1972), Here is where we meet (2005), From A to X (2008), Cataract (with Selcuk Demirel) (2012) and most recently, Confabulations (2016).

    Read more from John Berger

    Related to Once in Europa

    Related ebooks

    Literary Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Pre-order* Your Copy Today At

      Mar 9, 2021

      Pre-order* Your Copy Today At
      1 min read

    • Article

      Jan Morris

      Jun 15, 2018

      I have always rather envied the poet Ovid, who was banished from Rome by the emperor Augustus, you may remember, to a remote place called Tomis on the shores of the Black Sea. There he died, ten years later, and his exile has gone into legend and int

      17 min read

    • Article

      We Sleep to Wake

      Mar 15, 2022

      We Sleep to Wake
      1 min read

    • Article

      Image and Appropriation: On Lynne Tillman’s ‘Men and Apparitions’

      Mar 23, 2018

      How many times have I checked my Instagram feed since I attempted to start writing this review? I have lurked on the Internet and seen sulking selfies and sultry men posing with plants and a green glow framed in darkness; I have witnessed cats playin

      9 min read

    • Article

      Don’t Eat and Read

      Aug 9, 2019

      Don’t Eat and Read
      1 min read

    • Article

      Airea D. Matthews: Texting with Anne Sexton

      Mar 22, 2017

      For the second installment in a monthly series of interviews with contemporary poets (read part one here), Peter Mishler corresponded with poet Airea D. Matthews. Airea D. Matthews’s first collection of poems, Simulacra, received the 2016 Yale Series

      7 min read

    • Article

      War Of The Beasts And The Animals, And In Memory Of Memory By Maria Stepanova – Review

      Apr 13, 2021

      Translated poetry seldom finds its way into this column. It is too high risk: there is the probability the original voice will seem muffled or will not travel. But an exception has to be made for Maria Stepanova, born in Moscow and a leading voice in

      2 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Sarah Thankam Mathews

      Dec 18, 2020

      By May I was clenching my teeth so hard when I slept that it eventually cracked a filling. The post A Year in Reading: Sarah Thankam Mathews appeared first on The Millions.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Oceans

      Mar 15, 2019

      I used to be interested in mountains. They moved at a speed I could deal with. They waited for me to catch up. It was like that all my life. Then we moved to California, and after eight years of earthquakes I began to doubt my ability to put things i

      12 min read

    • Article

      The Essential Duchamp

      Aug 21, 2019

      The Essential Duchamp
      3 min read

    • Article

      A Mournful Spring

      Mar 1, 2022

      in memory of Adam Zagajewski So many friends have you seen pass,maestro of the poetic eulogy. Now it’s my turn. Can you hear me?We don’t know. Why didn’t we spend more time together,talk more, call each other? I thought you’d live to be old,very ol

      1 min read

    • Article

      Titane

      Sep 14, 2021

      Titane
      5 min read

    • Article

      Muse

      Mar 1, 2020

      Muse
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Art of Fiction No. 254

      Jun 14, 2022

      The Art of Fiction No. 254
      33 min read

    • Article

      José Donoso Saw the Future of Latin American Literature

      Nov 21, 2023

      American readers have largely forgotten the single greatest writer to come from the Latin American Boom: Chilean novelist José Donoso. The post José Donoso Saw the Future of Latin American Literature appeared first on The Millions.

      5 min read

    • Article

      Kandinsky Wassily

      Jan 22, 2021

      Kandinsky Wassily
      5 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Once in Europa

    4/5

    42 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      Slightly disappointing compared to the first volume, just because the stories here are much less varied in tone, style and theme. That said, the novella from which the collection takes its name is stunning, and I'm sure I'll be returning to it. It's hard to write love stories that I want to read, but with 'Once in Europa,' (the story), Berger succeeds.

      Otherwise, I like the 'modernity comes to the country' focus here, particularly in the short, final story, which somehow combines references to Gramsci with a love story.