How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read - Pierre Bayard

Scandal! A renowned professor of literature confesses that he doesn't like reading and that he's frequently lectured his students on books he hasn't read. - This isn't the plot of a novel in a nutshell, no, Pierre Baynard, a Paris University Professor of Literature and author of the essay How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read does just this in real life. Is something like this possible at all? I don't know about you, but I've already experienced that it is and that one can get away with it. In our last year at secondary grammar school some friends and I each chose a book from the reading list which we didn't read, we discussed it animatedly, though, and ...  Read the complete review