My distinction show by Wally

33 Place de l’Eglise Saint Amans 12120 Arvieu

In this narrative, Lilian Derruau connects his experience as a “kid from the factory” to the ideas of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Not content with simply recounting memories of that early childhood, he paints this working-class France of the 1970s in a text where mischief and self-deprecation go hand in hand. Long a singer with a humorous bent under the name Wally, here we find him in a completely different register: the sociological narrative, but in his own way, one that provokes laughter with a touch of poetry and a bundle of emotions. An era of carefree times, then a realization of a for…