![]() ![]() He is the author of Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?and of many other books. Pierre Bayard is a professor of French literature at the University of Paris VIII and a psychoanalyst. ![]() Its the book that readers everywhere will be talking aboutand despite themselves, readingthis holiday season. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Havent Read is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them. 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. The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as a survivors guide to life in the chattering classes.” 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 were forced to talk about books we havent 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 its actually more important to know a books role in our collective library than its details. ![]()
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