Pierre Bayard

"Provocative, challenging and witty…In challenging the line between reading and non-reading, Bayard actually whet my appetite to read more."―USA Today With so many important books out there, and thousands more being published each year, what are we supposed to do in those inevitable social situations where we're …

Sherlock Holmes was Wrong: Re-opening the Case of the "Hound of the Baskervilles" is a 2007 book by French professor of literature, psychoanalyst, and author Pierre Bayard. By re-examining the clues, and carefully interpreting them in the context in which Doyle's book was conceived and written, Bayard clears the hound …