ABSTRACT
The novelist John Berger has his main character in Here Is Where We Meet (2005) engage in a series of meetings in different locations in Lisboa with his mother. This is not remarkable in itself except that his mother has been dead for fifteen years. Their meetings take place in his dreams. They are vivid meetings in which different moments of his life from boyhood through to old age (long after she is dead) are concertinaed together in succession. His mother teaches him things about life and scoffs at his idiosyncrasies. Toward the end of his meetings with her, Berger comments, “After the death of mothers, time often doubles or accelerates its speed” (p. 54). 1
