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How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read
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Author
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Pierre Bayard.
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Publisher
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Bloomsbury/QPB
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Format
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paperback
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Product Dimensions
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7.75
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5
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0.55
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ISBN
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9780739496985
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Pages/Publication Date
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185/2007
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Daedalus Item Code
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11513
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Description
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If civilized people are expected to have read all important works of literature, while many more are published every year, what are we to do in those awkward situations in which we must talk about books we haven’t read? In this delightfully provocative book, a huge hit in France that has drawn attention from critics 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 some situations, he says, reading the book is the worst thing you could do. Using examples from Graham Greene, Oscar Wilde, Montaigne, Umberto Eco, and others, Bayard describes various levels of "non-reading"—how talking about unread books can become an opportunity for creative brilliance and, in the subtext, the joys of actually reading books.
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