It is with great delicacy and honesty that the sociologist Didier Eribon invites us to accompany him in his genealogy of a breakup. Well, that's what it's about and always has been about since his adolescence: breaking away from a social, family, popular and provincial world whose values and sensibilities he never shared. A world characterized by poverty, homophobia and xenophobia, from which he decided to escape by going to live his homosexuality and forge his intellectual universe in the great capital, Paris. Social world with which he reunites, decades later, on the occasion of the death of his father.
Is it possible to definitively leave his own past behind? Is it possible not to be a prisoner of his own history? How to confront the ghosts of a painful past that does not want to pass away and that never stops returning to the surface, since it is inscribed in the most intima...read more
