Acceptable: Has been read but is in acceptable condition. Wear on cover. No tears, no writing, no highlighting, no missing pages. Actual book is pictured.

In the view of Pierre Brunel, one of the most prominent figures of the "French School" of Comparative Literature, the discipline is far more than just "comparing two books." Along with his colleagues Claude Pichois and André-Michel Rousseau, he defines it as the methodical study of international literary relations.