Skip to Content The Penguin Podcast is back! Listen now. Home Didier Eribon Returning to Reims. Format: Paperback Ebook. Amazon Blackwells Bookshop. Why, when I have had such an intense experience of forms of shame related to class, shame in relation to the milieu in which I grew up, why, when once I had arrived in Paris and started meeting people from such different class backgrounds, I would often find myself lying about my class origins It is a frank, fearlessly personal story of family, memory, identity and time lost.
But it is also a sociologist's view of what it means to grow up working class and then leave that class; of inequality and shifting political allegiances in an increasingly divided nation. A phenomenon in France and a huge bestseller in Germany, Didier Eribon has written the defining memoir of our times. A brilliant little book A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself Didier Eribon understands how deep the roots of inequality go.
Returning to Reims played a capital role in my life I was overwhelmed by this book. I felt I was reading the story of my life. This is a self-excoriating memoir A stunning book -- vital and important. Eribon's memoir is fascinating: full of fretful honesty, battling with shame around his background and shame at being ashamed. Eribon offers up a magnificent example of an enlightened life liberated by theory, written in a style that deftly moves between the intimate, the social and the political.
A powerful book and one that I enjoyed immensely. This is a beautiful book about suppression, losing touch with your roots, and regaining balance. About Didier Eribon Learn more. All editions. Paperback Ebook
