Status Updates From Returning to Reims

Reminiscent of Annie Ernaux in its frank, often devastating reflections on working-class lives in provincial France, but in Eribon's case the view is more forensically academic. His self-analysis is pitiless: his discomfort with his roots in the classe ouvrière, his hypocritical idealisation of a revolutionary working class while rejecting his own family; but also his fulsome criticism of other academics.