Are there bad readers?

Audio 29:00

Maxime Decout © DR

By: Pascal Paradou

30 mins

Skipping the pages of a book, reading the wrong way or concentrating on something else… Is reading poorly?

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Is bad reading ultimately an excellent way of reading, a way of reclaiming the literary work?

Do you have to be a bookworm to be a good reader?  

Guest: Maxime Decout,

professor at the

University of Aix-Marseille

.

Author of

"Praise of the bad reader", published by Minuit.

And the chronicle

"Flea in the ear"

 by

Lucie Bouteloup

: "take a plum".

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