How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
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See complete details on each edition containing How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read (4 editions listed)
Summary of editions containing How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read:

Hardcover: 9781596914698, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, October 30, 2007, cover price $19.95

Paperback: 9781596915435, Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA, September 29, 2009, cover price $14.00; and 9781551929620, Raincoast Book Dist Ltd, October 15, 2007, cover price $24.95

Miscellaneous: 9781433207990, Mp3 una edition (Blackstone Audio Inc, October 30, 2007), cover price $29.95

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

A lighthearted and provocative French best-seller argues that it is more important to understand a book's relevance than to be familiar with its details, drawing on examples from key modern works while offering specific advice on how to speak knowledgeably in a variety of social occasions.

Authors
Jeffrey Mehlman (trans)
Pierre Bayard
Publisher
Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Publication date
October 30, 2007
Pages
185
Binding
Hardcover
Edition
03
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781596914698
ISBN-10
1596914696
Dimensions
0.75 by 7 by 6.25 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Original list price
$19.95
Amazon.com editorial descriptions of this work:
Product Description:
The runaway French bestseller hailed by the New York Times as “a survivor’s 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 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 around the world, literature professor and psychoanalyst Pierre Bayard argues that it’s actually more important to know a book’s role in our collective library than its details. 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. Practical, funny, and thought-provoking, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read is in the end a love letter to books, offering a whole new perspective on how we read and absorb them. It’s the book that readers everywhere will be talking about—and despite themselves, reading—this holiday season.


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