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Raphaëlle Leyris

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Raphaëlle Leyris

Raphaëlle Leyris is a journalist for Le Monde, France’s newspaper of record, where she oversees coverage of French and foreign literature.

Articles by Raphaëlle Leyris

Portraits of writers Daniel Mendelsohn and Émmanuel Carrère.

Daniel Mendelsohn (left), photo © Matt Mendelsohn, and Émmanuel Carrère, photo by Raphael Labbé, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

“We Are Always Present in What We Write”: An Exchange between Emmanuel Carrère and Daniel Mendelsohn

By Raphaëlle Leyris

You are never the same 'you' from book to book.

Translated by Émanuel Grenier-Benoit