Laurent Pernot, L’Art du Sous-Entendu: Histoire – Théorie – Mode d’emploi. Paris: Fayard, 2018. 334 pp. $30.00 (cloth), $15.00 (ebook), ISBN:49-1995-3/01.

Abstract

This book draws in the reader with its scope, its humor, its brio, and its learning. In many ways, it is a collage, as the writer, Laurent Pernot, openly suggests when he says that he is classifyin...