There is one catch: Bayard writes in French. Of course, that hardly matters as, by definition, you're not going to crack the spine.
问题在于伯亚德写的是法文。是又怎样呢，按照他的定义，你本来就不用打开书页的。
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Bayard, a 52-year-old professor of literature and a psychoanalyst, has gotten this far without ever having picked up "Oliver Twist" or finished "Ulysses."