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L'étude des différentes manières de ne pas lire un livre, des situations délicates où l'on se retrouve quand il faut en parler et des moyens à mettre en œuvre pour se sortir d'affaire montre que, contrairement aux idées reçues, il est tout à fait possible d'avoir un échange passionnant à propos d'un livre que l'on n'a pas lu, y compris, et peut-être surtout, avec quelqu'un qui ne l'a pas lu non plus.

Written in the irreverent style that made How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read a critical and commercial success, Pierre Bayard takes listeners on a trip around the world, giving us essential guidance on how to talk about all those fantastic places we've never been. Practical, funny, and thought provoking, How to Talk About Places You've Never Been will delight and inform armchair globetrotters and jet-setters, all while never having to leave the comfort of the living room.

Eliminate the impossible, Sherlock Holmes said, and whatever is left must be the solution. But, as Pierre Bayard finds in this dazzling reinvestigation of The Hound of the Baskervilles, sometimes the master missed his mark. Using the last thoughts of the murder victim as his key, Bayard unravels the case, leading the reader to the astonishing conclusion that Holmes - and, in fact, Arthur Conan Doyle - got things all wrong: The killer is not at all who they said it was.