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100 1 $aBayard, Pierre,$d1954-
240 10 $aComment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus?$lEnglish
245 10 $aHow to talk about books you haven't read /$cPierre Bayard ; translated from the French by Jeffrey Mehlman.
250 $a1st U.S. ed.
260 $aNew York, NY :$bBloomsbury USA :$bDistributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers,$c2007.
300 $axxi, 185 pages ;$c21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aPreface -- Ways of not reading. Books you don't know (in which the reader will see, as demonstrated by a character of Musil's, that reading any particular book is a waste of time compared to keeping our perspective about books overall) -- Books you have skimmed (in which we see, along with Vale ry, that it is enough to have skimmed a book to be able to write an article about it, and that with certain books it might even be inappropriate to do otherwise) -- Books you have heard of (in which Umberto Eco shows that it is wholly unnecessary to have held a book in your hand to be able to speak about it in detail, as long as you listen to and read what others say about it) -- Books you have forgotten (in which, along with Montaigne, we raise the question of whether a book you have read and completely forgotten, and which you have even forgotten you have read, is still a book you have read) -- Literary confrontations. Encounters in society (in which Graham Greene describes a nightmarish situation where the hero finds himself facing an auditorium full of admirers impatiently waiting for him to speak about books that he hasn't read) -- Encounters with professors (in which we confirm, along with the Tiv tribe of western Africa, that it is wholly unnecessary to have opened a book in order to deliver an enlightened opinion on it, even if you displease the specialists in the process) -- Encounters with the writer (in which Pierre Siniac demonstrates that it may be important to watch what you say in the presence of a writer, especially when he himself hasn't read the book whose author he is) -- Encounters with someone you love (in which we see, along with Bill Murray and his groundhog, that the ideal way to seduce someone by speaking about books he or she loves without having read them yourself would be to bring time to a halt) -- Ways of behaving. Not being ashamed (in which it is confirmed, with regard to the novels of David Lodge, that the first condition for speaking about a book you haven't read is not to be ashamed) -- Imposing your ideas (in which Balzac proves that one key to imposing your point of view on a book is to remember that the book is not a fixed object, and that even tying it up with string will not be sufficient to stop its motion) -- Inventing books (in which, reading So seki, we follow the advice of a cat and an artist in gold-rimmed spectacles, who each, in different fields of activity, proclaim the necessity of invention) -- Speaking about yourself (in which we conclude, along with Oscar Wilde, that the appropriate time span for reading a book is ten minutes, after which you risk forgetting that the encounter is primarily a pretext for writing your autobiography) -- Epilogue.
520 $aOffers advice to people on how to talk about books they have not read, including books they have skimmed, heard about, or read and forgotten, analyzes situations in which people might find themselves talking about books they have not read, and includes recommendations on how to resolve such social dilemmas.
546 $aTranslated from the French.
650 0 $aLiterature$xHistory and criticism$xTheory, etc.
650 0 $aBooks and reading.
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650 7 $aLiterature - History and criticism - Theory, etc.$2sears
650 7 $aBooks and reading.$2sears
655 7 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01411635
776 08 $iOnline version:$aBayard, Pierre, 1954-$sComment parler des livres que l'on n'a pas lus? English.$tHow to talk about books you haven't read.$b1st U.S. ed.$dNew York, NY : Bloomsbury USA : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2007$w(OCoLC)989695199
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0722/2007027178.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0740/2007027178-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0740/2007027178-d.html
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