"Who has actually read Finnegans Wake – I mean from beginning to end? Who has read the Bible properly, from Genesis to the Apocalypse?" asks Umberto Eco, alongside script-writer Jean-Claude Carrière, in a new book on the future of literature.
"There are books on our shelves we haven't read and doubtless never will, that each of us has probably put to one side in the belief that we will read them later on, perhaps even in another life."
Do you agree? Is there a collection of books lingering on a dusty shelf in your living room, never to be looked at? What is your paper white whale?
