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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Pierre Bayard
Bloomsbury Publishing
October 2007
On Sale: October 30, 2007
208 pages ISBN: 1596914696 EAN: 9781596914698 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
If civilized people are expected to have read all important
works of literature, and thousands more books are published
every year, what are we supposed to do in those awkward
social situations in which we’re forced to talk about books
we haven’t read? In this delightfully witty, provocative
book, a huge hit in France that has drawn attention from
critics around the world, literature professor and
psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that it’s actually more
important to know a book’s role in our collective library
than its details. Using examples from such writers as Graham
Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, and Umberto Eco, and even
the movie Groundhog Day, he describes the many varieties of
“non-reading” and the horribly sticky social situations that
might confront us, and then offers his advice on what to do.
Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About
Books You Haven’t Read is in the end a love letter to books,
offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb
them. It’s the book that readers everywhere will be talking
about—and despite themselves, reading—this holiday season.
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