| Literature type | Lyrics, Prose, Films, Arts |
| Author | Berger, John |
| Title | El cuaderno de Bento |
| Editor | traducción de Pilar Vázquez |
| Editor (surname first) | Vázquez, Pilar (Hrsg./Ed.) |
| Place published | Madrid |
| Publisher | Alfaguara |
| Year | 2012 |
| Pages in total (of the volume) | 178 : Ill. |
| Language | Spanish |
| Thematic areas | Biography, Literary or artistic representation |
| First edition in the original language | Engl. (2011) |
| Other editions / translations | Erneut/again: Deutsch/German (2013) |
| Autopsy | no |
| Complete bibliographic evaluation | no |
| German commentary | Die meiste Zeit seines Lebens verbrachte der Philosoph Baruch de Spinoza, genannt Bento, mit Schreiben. Doch er zeichnete auch und soll stets ein Skizzenbuch bei sich getragen haben. Jahrelang hoffte John Berger, dass eins dieser verschollenen Bücher auftauchen würde. Schließlich begann der Autor und Maler aus Großbritannien ein eigenes Skizzenbuch anzulegen - „Bentos Skizzenbuch“: Im Dialog mit den Gedanken Spinozas schreibt Berger u.a. über das Erzählen und das Tanzen, über Platonow und Velásquez, und er stellt erstaunliche Bezüge her zwischen Alltag und Kunst, Malerei und Philosophie. Das Ergebnis ist ein einzigartiges Buch über die Kunst und selbst ein Kunstwerk. |
| English commentary | The seventeenth-century philosopher Baruch Spinoza - generally known as Benedict (or Bento) de Spinoza - spent the most intense years of his short life writing. A keen draughtsman, he also carried with him a sketchbook. After his sudden death, his friends rescued letters, manuscripts, notes, but apparently didn't find a sketchbook. Or, if they did, it was subsequently lost. For years, John Berger has imagined Bento's sketchbook being found, not knowing what he hoped to find in it, but wanting to reread his words while being able to look at the things Bento had seen with his own eyes. When one day a friend gave John a blank sketchbook he began to draw: not like a seventeenth-century Dutch amateur, nor to try and illustrate Bento's thoughts, but drawing, in Spinoza's company, from life today, and telling stories and asking questions. A book of images and words, Bento's Sketchbook is an exploration of the practice of drawing, about where and to what it leads. It is, too, a beautiful, clear-sighted meditation on how we perceive, and seek to explain, our ever-changing relationship with the world around us. |
| Link to this page | http://spinoza.hab.de/detail.php?id=406&LANG=EN |
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