Imprint: Penguin
Published: 30/06/2016
ISBN: 9780241961063
Length: 448 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
Weight: 338g
RRP: £9.99
WINNER OF THE GRAND PRIX DU LIVRE D'IDÉES
The French: serious and frivolous, charming and infuriating, rational and mystical, pessimistic, pleasure-loving - and perhaps more than any other people, intellectual. This original and entertaining book shows exactly what makes the French so ... French.
Imprint: Penguin
Published: 30/06/2016
ISBN: 9780241961063
Length: 448 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 26mm x 129mm
Weight: 338g
RRP: £9.99
There could be no wiser or more witty guide to the problems of France today.
A first-rate book... Sudhir Hazareesingh, brings an engaging personal angle to his ambitious cavalcade through four centuries of French intellectual thought... This vast, opinionated and wholly original book reminds us that ideas still count and that intellectual endeavour still has resonance in the face of the mercantile plutocracy that so much defines the way we live now.
This book depicts Parisian society like a Cambridge party in which everyone knows the jokes, and everyone knows where the bodies are buried. You will read it not just with fascination, but with relish.