Badger Claws
Julian Barnes: Poil de Carotte, 30 June 2011
Nature Stories
by Jules Renard, translated by Douglas Parmée.
NYRB, 165 pp., £8.99, March 2011,978 1 59017 364 0 Show More
by Jules Renard, translated by Douglas Parmée.
NYRB, 165 pp., £8.99, March 2011,
“... I own two photographs of Jules Renard (1864-1910). There is no indication of when either of them was taken, and at times I have wondered if they are really of the same man. In the first, from a series called ‘Nos contemporains chez eux’, he sits at a cluttered desk; behind him is a scruffy bookcase and a calendar showing the first of some month; on the floral wallpaper hangs a looped speaking tube, perhaps for ordering his mid-morning coffee ... ”