In this luminous novel about a modern Don Juan, John Berger relates the
story of G., a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe
during the early years of the last century as Europe teeters on the
brink of war. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts
and minds of both men and women, and what happens during sex, to reveal
the conditions of the libertine's success: his essential loneliness,
the quiet cumulation in each of his sexual experiences of all of those
that precede it, the tenderness that infuses even the briefest of his
encounters, and the way women experience their own extraordinariness
through their liaisons with him. Set against the turbulent backdrop of
Garibaldi's attempt to unite Italy, the failed revolution of Milanese
workers in 1898, the Boer War and the dramatic first flight across the
Alps, G.
is a brilliant novel about the search for intimacy in the turmoil of history.
G - John Berger
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