Alice Zeniter and Julia Kerninon denounce the lack of fictional heroines

Alice Zeniter is a French author whose latest book,

, evokes the place occupied by female characters in fiction.

She considers, for example, that women are under-represented in the field of literature and that the rare heroines do not hold a very enviable role there.

For Brut, she discusses this subject with Julia Kerninon, one of her colleagues.

“Few female models with desirable existences”

"Throughout my childhood and then my adolescence, the characters who interested me, who were 'desirable', were always men, and therefore, if I wanted to experience something else, I had to identify with them.

In fact, I was offered very few female role models who could be launched into desirable existences,” says Alice Zeniter.

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Same observation for Julia Kerninon, who takes as an example her reading of the novel

, by Henry Miller: "These are only stories of women who always wear garter belts under their dresses, who walk in the street, always ready to being tipped over in places as uncomfortable as a bathtub…” This is a problem for Alice Zeniter, according to whom identification with heroes and heroines is of real importance in the construction of the youngest.

We invite you to follow their exchange in this video from our partner Brut.

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