In this provocative, witty book, literature professor and psychoanalyst Bayard argues that non-reading can be just as useful an act as reading. He states that the truly cultivated person is not the one who has read a book, but the one who understands the books place in culture.

• ISBN: 1596914696
• ISBN-13: 9781596914698
• Author : Pierre Bayard
• Translator : Jeffrey Mehlman
• Category : Literary Criticism - Books & Reading
• Language : English
• Format:  Hardcover - Search for other formats
• Publication Date: 10/1/2007
• Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Price ($AUD): $32.95


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