2023-05-10 20:35:10
Marcel Proust et J. K. Rowling. PVDE / Bridgeman Images – REUTERS / TOBY MELVILLE
NARRATIVE – The manuscripts of the most illustrious writers have been refused. Some examples have become famous.
Richard Brautigan had made a beautiful love story out of it: a man lives cloistered in an unusual library which welcomes manuscripts refused by publishers day and night. It is the plot of Abortionan astonishing title but which also speaks of the pain of seeing his text never be published.
In The Henry Pick Mystery, David Foenkinos features Jean-Pierre Gourvec, a librarian in Crozon, Finistère, who undertakes to realize Brautigan’s idea of creating a library to store rejected manuscripts. Years later, an editor comes across one of the texts, and publishes it. Success is immediate…
Refusals from the most prestigious houses
Brautigan and Foenkinos didn’t go far to come up with the idea. The history of publishing is a great history of magnificent failures. That’s what it says Dear Mr Editorby Laurent Tournesac, who publishes his… first book there.
The subject inspires. Each publishing house, each publisher has its account of a rejected manuscript which has triumphed elsewhere. This is part of…
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