Screen LibraryHow to talk about places you've never been : on the importance of armchair travel /
"Written in the irreverent style that made How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read a critical and commercial success, Pierre Bayard takes readers on a trip around the world, giving us essential guidance on how to talk about all those fantastic places we've never been. Practical, funn...
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Bloomsbury,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2016. |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English French |
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"Written in the irreverent style that made How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read a critical and commercial success, Pierre Bayard takes readers 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. Bayard examines the art of the "non-journey," a tradition that a succession of writers and thinkers, unconcerned wit |
| Carrier Form: | xvi, 185 pages ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: |
9781620401378 (hardback) : 1620401371 (hardback) 9781620401385 (ePub) 162040138X (ePub) |
| Index Number: | PN56 |
| CLC: | I106.6 |
| Call Number: | I106.6/B356 |
| Contents: | Prologue -- Various ways of not knowing -- Places you don't know -- Places you've been through -- Places others have talked about -- Places you've forgotten -- Talking about travel -- In the field of anthropology -- In the media -- In sporting endeavors -- In the bosom of the family -- Procedures to follow -- Opening up frontiers -- Time travel -- Through the mirror -- Making love -- Epilogue. |