{"product_id":"something-to-declare-something-to-declare-essays-on-france-and-french-culture-9781400030873","title":"Something to Declare: Something to Declare: Essays on France and French Culture","description":"\u003cb\u003eFor anyone who loves France (or just feels strongly about it) comes a \"beautifully written\" collection of essays (\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review)\u003c\/i\u003e on the country and its culture--from the bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sense of an Ending. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJulian 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, \u003ci\u003eSomething to Declare\u003c\/i\u003e is an unadulterated joy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBorn 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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50334343528722,"sku":"9781400030873","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2a9f5950-205b-4218-90a9-b62f3eb96324.jpg?v=1727888450","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/something-to-declare-something-to-declare-essays-on-france-and-french-culture-9781400030873","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}