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ID: 455403
Title: Something to Declare
Author: Julian Barnes
Narrator: Simon Vance
Format: Unabridged
Length: 09:36:50
Language: English
Release date: 04-20-21
Publisher: Recorded Books
Genres: Travel, Europe
Summary:
Anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it), or has succumbed to the spell of Julian Barness previous books, will be enraptured by this collection of essays on the country and its culture.
Barness appreciation extends from Frances vanishing peasantry to its hyperliterate 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.