How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

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• Never read Ulysses? Me neither

  How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard; translated by Jeffrey Mehlman Granta £12, pp185 Pierre Bayard is a Paris-based professor of French literature. As such, he is a practised charlatan, a literary bullshitter, a professional 'no ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

• In the canon's mouth

  How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard, translated by Jeffrey Mehlman 185pp, Granta Books, £12 If, by way of an experiment, you set out to record the titles of all the books you read, you will soon find that "reading" is an elastic ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  More serious what I thought

  It starts defining what it means "not reading" and then provides examples through characters in literature and real life to proof his many arguments. The anecdotes he tells are more interesting for me that the point he is trying to make (i.e the african tribe that discusses Hamlet without with an an ... (continue)

  It starts defining what it means "not reading" and then provides examples through characters in literature and real life to proof his many arguments. The anecdotes he tells are more interesting for me that the point he is trying to make (i.e the african tribe that discusses Hamlet without with an anthropologist without ever reading the play or heard about Shakespeare is one of the best parts of the book).

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• English Books
• Paperback 185 Pages
• Edition: 1
• ISBN-10: 1847080561
• ISBN-13: 9781847080561
• Publisher: Granta Books
• Pub date: Jan 01, 2008
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