Pierre Bayard

Pierre Bayard (French: [pjɛʁ bajaʁ]; born 1954) is professor of Literature at the University of Paris 8 and psychoanalyst.

In the course of his essays, he has, among other things, chased down unpunished literary criminals (due to the negligence of their creators), provided tips and tricks for talking about books and places that have not been read or seen, or reflected on the resistance/collaboration dilemma.

Pierre Bayard has renewed this system in Comment parler des lieux où l'on n'a pas été, a work in the second degree again, in which he reviews the authors who have spoken of places they have not visited.

His books have been considered as cases of "novelistic criticism", in that they present revisionist readings of famous fictional mysteries.

His entire book is therefore the counter-investigation that must restore the truth: we find in fact the procedure he already used earlier: attempts to rectify certain fictional police investigations that he considers unlikely.