How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read


If cultured people are expected to have read all the significant works of literature, and thousands more are published every  year, what are we supposed to do in those inevitable social situations where we're forced to talk about books we haven’t read? In this delightfully witty, provocative book, a huge hit in France that has drawn attention from critics and readers 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.


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