A Note on the Author

PIERRE BAYARD is a professor of French literature at the

University of Paris VIII and a psychoanalyst. He is the author of Who Killed Roger Ackroyd? and of many other books.

JEFFREY M E H L M A N is a professor of French literature at

Boston University and the author of a number of books, including Emigré New York. He has translated works by Derrida, Lacan, Blanchot, and other authors.