I am the sort of writer who needs another form to tell me who I am and what has happened to me...I think all my novels are self-portraits, but there's no one character who resolves me, or catalyses me, or is me. (Maylis de Kerangal)

I am the sort of writer who needs another form to tell me who I am and what has happened to me...I think all my novels are self-portraits, but there's no one character who resolves me, or catalyses me, or is me.

Maylis de Kerangal

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