Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.
Comme tous les livres que j'avais lu comportaient des personnages étrangers, j'avais développé la conviction que les livres, par leur nature même, devaient présenter des étrangers, et se devaient de parler de choses avec lesquelles je ne pouvais pas m'identifier.