Fictional characters exert a great deal influence choices love represe — Pierre Bayard, Talk Books Haven’t Read

How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read Pierre Bayard

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Fictional characters exert a great deal of influence over our choices in love by representing inaccessible ideals to which we try to make others conform, usually without success. But more subtly, too, the books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other person to assume a role.

Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read

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