| Something to Declare: Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture Contributor(s): Barnes, Julian (Author) |
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ISBN: 1400030870 ISBN-13: 9781400030873 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group OUR PRICE: $15.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2003 Annotation: Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes's previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture. Barnes's appreciation extends from France's vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm of "nouvelle vague cinema to the orgy of drugs and suffering that is the Tour de France. Above all, Barnes is an unparalleled connoisseur of French writing and writers. Here are the prolific and priapic Simenon, Baudelaire, Sand and Sartre, and several dazzling excursions on the prickly genius of Flaubert. Lively yet discriminating in its enthusiasm, seemingly infinite in its range of reference, and written in prose as stylish as "haute couture, Something to Declare is an unadulterated joy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | Europe - France - Literary Collections | Essays |
| Dewey: 944 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.64" H x 5.14" W x 8" (0.64 lbs) 320 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - French |
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| Publisher Description: Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barnes's previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture. Barnes's appreciation extends from France's vanishing peasantry to its hyper-literate pop singers, from the gleeful iconoclasm of nouvelle vague cinema to the orgy of drugs and suffering that is the Tour de France. Above all, Barnes is an unparalleled connoisseur of French writing and writers. Here are the prolific and priapic Simenon, Baudelaire, Sand and Sartre, and several dazzling excursions on the prickly genius of Flaubert. Lively yet discriminating in its enthusiasm, seemingly infinite in its range of reference, and written in prose as stylish as haute couture, Something to Declare is an unadulterated joy. |