http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/24/faking-your-way-through-literary-conversations/ Daily updates from the blog division of Quill & Quire, Canada's magazine of book news and reviews Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:47:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/24/faking-your-way-through-literary-conversations/comment-page-1/#comment-9606 Thomas Wed, 25 Jul 2007 05:00:57 +0000 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/24/faking-your-way-through-literary-conversations/#comment-9606 This book was a surprise bestseller for us here at the store in Montreal this past winter/spring. I was glad to hear that it’s being translated and getting some attention in the anglosphere. The premise of the book isn’t as democratic as it sounds, though: it turns out that to talk about books you haven’t read, you still need to have a pretty strong literary culture. All the same, this is probably one of the most playful books that the prestigious Éditions de Minuit (publisher of Beckett, Duras, Robbe-Grillet , Derrida and Deleuze) has ever published.

]]> http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/24/faking-your-way-through-literary-conversations/comment-page-1/#comment-9586 Dan Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:32:27 +0000 http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2007/07/24/faking-your-way-through-literary-conversations/#comment-9586 Thanks for the link. Pierre Bayard's book is going to be published by Raincoast in November! The English title will be 'How to Talk about Books You Haven't Read'. Thanks for the link. Pierre Bayard’s book is going to be published by Raincoast in November! The English title will be ‘How to Talk about Books You Haven’t Read’.

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