Class shame: Daniela Dröscher’s “Lies about my mother”. Review – culture

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Johanna Adorjan

You got Didier Eribon’s “Return to Reims” breathless and with hot ears read, the German writer Daniela Dröscher has known. Reading the French sociologist, who reflects in this book on the working class from which he comes, gave her the realization that the shame she had always felt for her parents and her lower middle-class origins was not individual, but immanent in her milieu . She has since published a memoir addressing her own social background, “Show Your Class” (Hoffmann and Campe, 2020). Her new book, which also tells about it, is now being published. This time it’s a novel – with the hit title “Lies about my mother”.

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