Iulian Miron, International Collaborations Manager
"Dense, concise, sociological, political, literary, feminist, informed by two full lives: a conversation tracing six decades of change in French society."

An intimate intellectual conversation between 2022 Nobel literature laureate Annie Ernaux (b. 1940) and sociologist Rose-Marie Lagrave (b. 1944), reflecting on their paths as class defectors from a feminist, emancipatory perspective deeply indebted to Pierre Bourdieu’s concepts of class transfuge, domination, and distinction. A fresco emerges: the last 70 years in France and Europe, and intersections between class and gender as highlighted by ruptures in their journeys.
Rich with references to Virginia Woolf, Marguerite Duras, Richard Hoggart, Raymond Aron, Simone de Beauvoir, and more.

In addition to the French original, the publisher can provide working copies of the full text, including the introduction, translated into the following languages: Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian Japanese Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish.