Por qué miramos a los animales

John Berger revolutionised the way we look at art, society and nature, encouraging us to look at the world as if for the first time. This book is a good example of this: varying in tone from tender anecdote to profound essay, the Booker Prize winner asks how and why we have become incapable of really seeing animals, whom we have turned into dolls, toys and characters in children's stories. Berger offers us a diagnosis, but also a way out: solidarity among the oppressed, the creation of a common language and a new emancipating gaze for both the one who looks and the one who is looked at. Alfaguara collects the essays, some of them unpublished in Spanish, that Berger dedicated to our relationship with animals and to various social struggles in a book that once again shows the author's sensitivity and commitment to issues of intense current relevance.