![]() Conversely, it is not necessary to have read a book in its entirety, or even at all, to know a great deal about it. Every time we read a book, we begin the process of forgetting it - details of plot or character vanish, even the book's general outlines blur, sometimes we forget having read it at all. Bayard's recent book Comment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus, or 'How to talk about books you haven't read', is a bestseller in France and has received much critical attention in English language press. In this delightfully witty, provocative book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that not having read a book need not be an impediment to having an interesting. ![]() In the first section, Bayard argues for the abolition of an artificial distinction between having read and not having read. Pierre Bayard (born 1954) is a French author, professor of literature and connoisseur of psychology. ![]() ![]() ![]() Do you feel guilty about the books you haven't read but know you should have? When the conversation turns to Tolstoy or Joyce, do you feel grubby and evasive ? At night, when leafing through a dog-eared copy of The Code of the Woosters or Maximum Bob, do you worry that the unread and half-read classics and literary bestsellers on your shelves are giving you dirty looks? Pierre Bayard offers you hope.įar from the bluffer's guide the title suggests, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read is a missionary tract, preaching a kind of literary liberation theology – liberation, that is, from shame at not having read a book. ![]()
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