How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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9781596914698
ISBN:1596914696
Pub Date: 2007Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Summary: "If cultured people are expected to have read all the significant works of literature, and thousands more are published each year, what are we supposed to do in those inevitable social situations where we're forced to talk about books we haven't read? In this book, a huge hit in France that has drawn attention from critics and readers around the world, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that [read more]
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9781596914698
ISBN:
1596914696
Pub Date: 2007
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
"If cultured people are expected to have read all the significant works of literature, and thousands more are published each year, what are we supposed to do in those inevitable social situations where we're forced to talk about books we haven't read? In this book, a huge hit in France that has drawn attention from critics and readers around the world, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting conversation about it. (In fact, he says, in certain situations reading the book is the worst thing you could do.) Using examples from such writers as Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, he describes the varieties of "non-reading" - from books that you've never heard of to books that you've read and forgotten - and offers advice on how to turn a sticky social situation into an occasion for creative brilliance."--BOOK JACKET.
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