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The life, old age, and death of a working-class woman

Eribon, Didier2025
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A few years ago, Didier Eribon's mother began to lose her physical and cognitive autonomy. After several months of resistance, Eribon and his brothers were compelled to place her in a nursing home. A few short weeks later, his mother passed away. In 'The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman', Eribon continues the historical, political and personal reflection he began with 'Returning to Reims', this time turning his attention to the end of life. Tracing his mother's rapid decline, and drawing on works by Simone de Beauvoir, Norbert Elias, Annie Ernaux and Michel Foucault, among others, Eribon transmutes his rage, sadness and the shame over her death into a strikingly nuanced portrait of the woman who raised him.
Main title:
The life, old age, and death of a working-class woman / Didier Eribon ; translated by Michael Lucey.
Author:
Imprint:
London : Allen Lane, 2025.
Collation:
256 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780241686720 (hbk)
Dewey class:
194
Language:
EnglishFrench
Related title:
The life, old age, and death of a working-class woman
BRN:
1637141
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