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Pierre Bayard
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born
in France
January 01, 1954
gender
male
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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
by Pierre Bayard, Jeffrey Mehlman — published 2007 — 34 editions |
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Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?: The Mystery Behind the Agatha Christie Mystery
by Pierre Bayard, Carol Cosman — published 2000 — 6 editions |
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Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles
— published 2008 — 15 editions |
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Miten puhua kirjoista joita ei ole lukenut
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Le plagiat par anticipation
— published 2009 |
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Hamlet Üzerine Soruşturma: Sağırlar Diyalogu
by Pierre Bayard, Muna Cedden — published 2002 — 2 editions |
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Aurais-je été résistant ou bourreau ?
— published 2013 |
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Peut On Appliquer La Littérature À La Psychanalyse?
— published 2004 |
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Comment améliorer les œuvres ratées
— published 2000 |
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Comment parler des lieux où l'on n'a pas été?
— published 2012 |
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“The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person to assume a role.
One of the conditions of happy romantic compatibility is, if not to have read the same books, to have read at least some books in common with the other person—which means, moreover, to have non-read the same books. From the beginning of the relationship, then, it is crucial to show that we can match the expectations of our beloved by making him or her sense the proximity of our inner libraries.”
― Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
One of the conditions of happy romantic compatibility is, if not to have read the same books, to have read at least some books in common with the other person—which means, moreover, to have non-read the same books. From the beginning of the relationship, then, it is crucial to show that we can match the expectations of our beloved by making him or her sense the proximity of our inner libraries.”
― Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
“(in which, along with Montaigne, we raise the question of whether a book you have read and completely forgotten, and which you have even forgotten you have read, is still a book you have read)”
― Pierre Bayard
― Pierre Bayard
“Our relationship with literary characters, at least to those that exercise a certain attraction over us, rests in fact on a denial. We know perfectly well, on a conscious level, that these characters “do not exist,” or in any case do not exist in the same way as do the inhabitants of the real world. But things manifest in an entirely different way on the unconscious level, which is interested not in the ontological differences between worlds but in the effect they produce on the psyche.
Every psychoanalyst knows how deeply a subject can be influenced, and even shaped, sometimes to the point of tragedy, by a fictional character and the sense of identification it gives rise to. This remark must first of all be understood as a reminder that we ourselves are usually fictional characters for other people […]”
― Pierre Bayard, Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles
Every psychoanalyst knows how deeply a subject can be influenced, and even shaped, sometimes to the point of tragedy, by a fictional character and the sense of identification it gives rise to. This remark must first of all be understood as a reminder that we ourselves are usually fictional characters for other people […]”
― Pierre Bayard, Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of the Hound of the Baskervilles
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| The Book Challenge: Samantha's 2008 Book Challenge | 35 | 151 | Dec 30, 2008 11:29pm | |
| The Seasonal Read...: Spring Challenge 2012: Completed Tasks -DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC | 2344 | 536 | May 31, 2012 09:02pm | |
| The Seasonal Read...: Spring Challenge 2013 Completed Tasks - DO NOT DELETE ANY POSTS IN THIS TOPIC! | 2841 | 463 | May 31, 2013 09:02pm |
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