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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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Civilization, Essays, Intellectual life, Nonfiction, Social life and customs, Travel, France -- Civilization., French literature, Popular culture, History and criticism, Manners and customs, Description and travel, France, France, civilization, France, social life and customs, France, intellectual lifePlaces
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Something to Declare
2009, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture
September 9, 2003, Vintage, Vintage Books
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Something to declare: essays on France
2002, Knopf
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Articles previously published in various publications between 1982 and 2000.
Originally published: London : Picador, 2002.
Includes index.
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"In the spring of 1998 I was on a walking holiday in the Vercors, south of Grenoble."
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