How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read Audio Book Cassettes Unabridged

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
Author: Pierre Bayard
Reader: Grover Gardner

So many books, so little time... what's a busy person to do when publishers keep cranking out titles? Don't read at all! The only thing that counts these days is a book's reputation. This mischievous literature professor defends our right to hold forth on books we haven't read. A New York Times Notable book. "Hilarious and elaborate spoof... screamingly funny."—Booklist » Read More

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Publish Date: 10/30/2007
ISBN: 9781433207976

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Pierre Bayard, a Paris University literature professor and intellectual provocateur, has written a devilishly clever book, a bestseller in his native France, about how (and why) to fake your knowledge of literature. Bayard confesses to skimming Proust and lecturing on texts he's never read. Though somewhat tongue-in-cheek, HOW TO TALK ABOUT BOOKS YOU HAVEN'T READ is not strictly a manual for making yourself look smart at cocktail parties. Bayard clearly loves books, and he argues--in a pleasing mixture of French high-theory and accessible wit--that to live with books, indeed to love books, one must choose a few to truly commit oneself to, and have a more fleeting relationship with the rest.

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