| Product Summary | | Format: Audio Book | | ISBN: 9781433207983 | | Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks | | Publish Date: 10/1/2007 | | Buy.com Sku: 205500019 | | Item#: | | Dimensions (in Inches) 5.5H x 5.25L x 0.75T |
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| | | In this mischievous book, a #3 bestseller in France thats racking up press coverage and rights sales around the world, literature professor Bayard contends that in this age of infinite publication, the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book, but the one who understands the books place in our culture
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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.
| Praise| "[A] survivor's guide to life in the chattering classes." - Alan Riding 02/23/2007 "[E]legant and witty....There is considerable pleasure to be had from this book." - Adrian Tahourdin 07/18/2007 |
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