How to talk about places you've never been : on the importance of armchair travel / Pierre Bayard ; translated by Michele Hutchison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bayard, Pierre, 1954- author.

Contributor:

Hutchison, Michele, translator.

Standardized Title:

Comment parler des lieux où l'on n'a pas été? English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Travel in literature.

Physical Description:

xvi, 185 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury, 2016.

Language Note:

Translated from French.

Summary:

"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 with moving away from their home turf, have employed in order to encounter the foreign cultures they wish to know and talk about. He describes concrete situations in which the reader might find himself having to speak about places he's never been, and he chronicles some of his own experiences and offers practical advice" -- provided by publisher.

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.

ISBN:

9781620401378

1620401371

OCLC:

935213758