Lời Giới thiệu: Dear Friend and Reader, Long-term memory clings like a barnacle to the mind, consciousness, or brain, I don’t know which, but gustation and olfaction appear to  cling just as tenaciously to long-term memory as barnacles, and allow this French novelist to produce 1.5 million words of adorable reminiscences of the past, and the humanist Nguyễn  Bảo  Hưng to comment with profound thoughts of his own, having benefited as student from his professor at Sorbonne, who happened to be an expert on this writer. The Vietnamese language sure is a curious invention. It takes a lowly number such…