Pierre Bayard

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

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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 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. Practical, funny, and thought-provoki… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-59691-714-9
EAN: 9781596917149
Produktnummer: 13891523
Verlag: Bloomsbury Usa
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 208 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 0 KB

Über den Autor

Pierre Bayard is a professor of French literature at the University of Paris VIII and a psychoanalyst. He is the author of Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?, and many other books.