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Something to Declare: Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture

Name: Something to Declare: Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture
Brand: Knopf Publishing Group
SKU: 9781400030873
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Contributors:

Julian Barnes

Publisher:

Knopf Publishing Group

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Travel, Literary Collections

Book Subcategory:

Essays & Travelogues, Europe, Essays

Book Topic:

France

Series:

Vintage International

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Release Date:

2003-09-09

ISBN 13:

9781400030873

Weight:

0.64 lbs

Size:

8.00 x 5.14 x 0.64 inches

Pages:

320

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Description

For anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it) comes a "beautifully written" collection of essays (The New York Times Book Review) on the country and its culture--from the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending.

Julian 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.

About the Author
Born in Leicester, England, in 1946, Julian Barnes is the author of nine novels, a book of stories, and a previous collection of essays. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages. In France he is the only writer to have won both the Prix Médicis and the Prix Fémina, and in 1988 he was made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London.