Cataract: Some Notes After Having a Cataract Removed - Tapa dura

An impressionistic essay written in the spirit of Montaigne documents the influential art critic and author's struggles with vision-compromising cataracts and the transformative effect of cataract removal operations, which reawakened abilities and illuminated the degree to which people adapt to sensory loss.

Storyteller, essayist, screenwriter, dramatist and critic, JOHN BERGER is one of the most internationally influential writers of the last fifty years. His many books include Ways of Seeing (1972), the Booker-prizewinning novel G (1972), Here is Where We Meet (2005), About Looking (2009) and, most recently, Bento’s Sketchbook (2011) He lives in a small village community in France.

SELÇUK DEMIREL was born in Artvin, Turkey, in 1954. He trained as an architect and moved to Paris in 1978, where he still lives. His illustrations and books have appeared in many prominent European and American publications.