Louis de Bernières
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Mar 18
It is a universal truth that publishers hate short stories. It has nothing to do with literature and everything to do with sales figures. Louis de Bernières’s collection is an exception. After the globe-trotting of his previous works, de Bernières’s Notwithstanding: Stories of Village Life, sees a return to settings much closer to home; a small village in the South of England. The book was prompted by the half-admiring remark of a French colleague of de Bernières’s that, compared to the rest of Europe, England seemed one big lunatic asylum. The resultant stories are a celebration of quirky people; de Bernières plays with English eccentricity and individualism. Notwithstanding is not about an imagined idyll; it is about people who are worth remembering, whose lives are worth celebrating, and who would otherwise have been forgotten. In conversation with Stephen McCarty. Mr de Bernières appears courtesy of the British Council. Participants: Louis de Bernières. Part of the Man Hong Kong Literary Festival
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