{"product_id":"9781941040829","title":"The Journal of Jules Renard","description":"\u003cp\u003eSpanning 1887 to a month before his death in 1910, \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of Jules Renard\u003c\/em\u003e is a unique autobiographical masterpiece that, though celebrated abroad and cited as a principle influence by writers as varying as Somerset Maugham and Donald Barthelme, remains more of a cult object in the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThroughout his journal, Renard develops not only his artistic convictions but also his humanity as he reflects on the nineteenth-century French literary and art scene, and on the emergence of his position as an important novelist and playwright in that world. Through a mix of aphorisms and observations, short scenes, gossip, jokes, and meditations on life and art, Renard portrays the details of his personal life?his love interests, his position as a socialist mayor of Chitry, the suicide of his father?that often appear in his work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn recent years, the fragmented memoir has grown in popularity, and there’s been a resurgence of diary as an artistic form. Once again, Jean Paul Sartre’s assessment that “directly, or indirectly, Renard is at the origin of contemporary literature” rings true. In a new introduction, Sarah Manguso—whose groundbreaking nonfiction incorporates elements of diary and aphorism—both contextualizes and celebrates Renard’s seminal journal.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tin House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151776104688,"sku":"9781941040829","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781941040829_p0.jpg?v=1769897451","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781941040829","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}