JULIAN BARNES-”SOMETHING TO DECLARE”-THE QUESTION OF AUTHENTICITY
JULIAN BARNES-”SOMETHING TO DECLARE”-THE QUESTION OF AUTHENTICITY

Summary/Abstract: “And culture maintained my relationship with France in those years of separation: books, art, song, films. Later, when I began to turn to France regularly, it was often to the kind of France- that my parents preferred. My automatic images of ‘being in France’ are initially pictorial: quiet canals lined with trees as regular as comb-teeth; a hunched bridge across shallow, pebbly water; dormant vines resting their flayed arms on taut wires; a scatter of fowl panicking on a dung-strewn back road; morning mist shifting like dry ice around a fat hayrick[…]” Julian Barnes, Something to Declare, 2002

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