Julian Barnes’s long and passionate relationship with la belle France began more than forty years ago, and in these essays on the country and the culture he combines a keen appreciation, a seemingly infinite sphere of reference, and prose as stylish as classic haute couture.
Barnes’s vision of France-“The Land Without Brussels Sprouts”-embraces its vanishing peasantry; its vanished hyper-literate pop singers, Georges Brassens, Boris Vian, and Jacques Brel (“[he] sang at the world as if it… could be saved from its follies and brutalities by his vocal embrace”); and the gleeful iconoclasm of its nouvelle vague cinema (“‘The Underpass in Modern French Film’ is a thesis waiting to be written”).
Vezava: Mehka
Ohranjenost: 4/5
Leto izdaje: 2002
Število strani: 318
