A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre explores what its like being human in relation to other human beings

By Leigh Wilson, Professor of English Literature, University of Westminster

The French writer Anne Serre has been very clear in interviews that she has no truck with a type of fiction that is fashionable in the UK at the moment. Readers drawn to fiction that blurs the line with autobiography – what Serre calls “the story of someone’s life, or of an episode in that life, passing itself off as a novel” – are, in her view, being “sold a lemon”.

She is clear, too, about…

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