![]() ![]() Kerninon published the book when she was aged 30 and a couple of years after her first novel, Buvard. Julia Kerninon’s A Respectable Occupation joins the shelves of these biblioautobiographies. They have origin stories of how reading and writing became as necessary as breathing. Virginia Woolf, Roland Barthes, Jeanette Winterson – they all read, as Woolf put it, “to refresh and exercise own creative powers.” They can’t stop themselves from writing about reading. ‘The greatest writers are also the greatest readers. In her foreword to this English edition Lauren Elkin writes: It is the 13th books from the wonderful publisher Les Fugitives “an independent literary press that publishes contemporary francophone writers of fiction, non-fiction and everything in between, with an emphasis on first English translations of works by authors previously unpublished in the UK.” My reviews of all 13 can be found here. ![]() ![]() In my family, no one had ever earned enough money to have any faith in it, so they didn’t believe in money, they believed in travel, poetry, material simplicity, they believed that literature was a respectable occupation.Ī Respectable Occupation is the translation by Ruth Diver of French novelist Julia Kerninon’s une activité respectable (2017). ![]()
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