Pierre Bayard

I was surprised to see that there was no book about this very common situation.

We know very often and when we are intellectuals,

This situation is quotidian, the situation of having to speak about books you have not read.

And there is no book about it.

You have books about everything, about improving your English.

I should have read it.

taking care of your garden or how to kill your wife and so on.

But no one's book about this common situation of having to speak about books.

I was surprised that in France when the book was published, many people, many booksellers, you see,

came to me and they told me thank you because they have this kind of problem.

They told me I begin at 9 o'clock and at 7 I don't have time to read just few books a year and each day people come to me and ask

advices about books.

And after having read this book, they are able to answer precisely.

My books are not written by myself.

My books are written by a kind of narrator, you see, a character who explains his positions.

And this character is not me, it's a part of me.

If you are a novelist and you create a murderer, when you create a murderer, you are not this murderer, but this murderer is a part of you, you see.

It's exactly what I try to practice in my books.

All my books are written by a kind of paranoiac narrator.

But of course, I am not this paranoiac narrator.