Returning to Reims
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"Reims also had a gay bar in those days, and many people preferred the discretion it allowed to the danger of being publicly visible while cruising on the street. Myself, I would never have dared enter the bar, even if I had been old enough. And in any case, partly due to a kind of leftist puritanism and partly to a kind of intellectual elitism (or what I took for such), I considered bars and nightclubs to be disreputable, or at least contemptible, pastimes."--Returning to Reims (2009) by Didier Eribon |
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Returning to Reims (2009) is a biographical novel by Didier Eribon.
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Retour à Reims draws on a wide range of thinkers and writers, from philosophy with J.P. Sartre and Foucault to literature and sociology. He can thus be situated between Ernaux's “transpersonal I” and Bourdieu's self-analysis.
Pierre Bourdieu
Drawing on the self-analysis developed by Pierre Bourdieu, Eribon takes the same approach here. With Retour à Reims, he sets out to explain social mechanisms through his own case.
Annie Ernaux
Retour à Reims is also inspired by the writer Annie Ernaux, whose works, such as La Place, combine intellectual reflection on identity with an intimate, singular history.
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