Great writers tend to be great theorists. Something that is particularly true regarding gender issues of sexuality. Through the analysis of the works of Proust, Genet, Gide and other authors, Didier Eribon clarifies the way in which novels are spaces where antagonistic conceptions of sexuality are confronted. But however diverse they may be, theories always develop within normative frameworks. While the novels staged "transgressive" characters and "deviant" practices. they do not stop enrolling in a universe in which the polarization and hierarchy of masculine and feminine are rigidly respected. "Subversive" practices really affect the gender system? What departs from the norm is out of it?
Through the concept of "verdict", Didier Eribon proposes to look at the level of the structures. It is that minority practices could be part of the system and contribute to its perpetuation rather than its transformation. So how can we propose social change and radical politics?