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The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman

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內容簡介 「極其誠實……引人入勝，難以直視卻又讓人愛不釋手。」——《文學評論》（Literary Review） 「一個坦率且動人的故事……一份迫切的訴求。」——《電訊報》（Telegraph）「誰在說話？誰能讓自己的聲音被聽見？如果這種基本的政治表態對於許多處於社會底層、最一無所有且最脆弱的人來說依然遙不可及，那麼為他們發聲，難道不是藝術家、作家與知識分子的責任嗎？」當迪迪耶．艾希邦的母親開始喪失生理與認知自主能力時，作者與他的兄弟們儘管內心不安，仍不得不將她送入養老院。幾週後，她在那裡去世了。在《一名工人階級女性的生活、衰老與死亡》（The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman）中，艾希邦展開了一場關於當代社會「老去」意義的歷史、政治與個人沉思，並探討了我們為那些負擔不起高級服務的人所提供的照護現狀。透過追溯母親快速衰老的過程，並引用西蒙．波娃、諾伯特．埃利亞斯、安妮．艾諾及米歇爾．傅柯等人的著作，艾里本對高齡、性別與階級之間的關係進行了誠實、獨特且廣泛的探索。他將自身的憤怒、悲傷與羞愧，轉化為對這項最被忽視的人類經驗極具層次的刻畫。'Searingly honest . . . compelling, hard to read and hard to put down' Literary Review'A frank and moving story . . . an urgent plea' Telegraph‘Who speaks? Who is able to make themselves heard? And if this fundamental political gesture remains inaccessible to so many people who figure among the most dominated, the most dispossessed, the most vulnerable, does it not fall to artists, writers and intellectuals to speak of them and for them’When Didier Eribon’s mother began to lose her physical and cognitive autonomy, the author and his brothers were compelled to place her in a nursing home, despite their misgivings. A few weeks later, she died.In The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman, Eribon embarks on a historical, political and personal meditation on what it means to grow old in our society, and the care we provide for those who cannot afford to pay for better services. Tracing his mother’s rapid decline – and drawing on works by Simone de Beauvoir, Norbert Elias, Annie Ernaux and Michel Foucault, among others – Eribon offers an honest, original and wide-ranging exploration of the relationship between ageing, gender and class, transmuting his own rage, sadness and shame into a strikingly nuanced portrait of the most overlooked human experience.Translated by Michael Lucey

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各界推薦 評論「一個坦率且動人的故事……一份為了讓老年人獲得更多尊重對待的迫切訴求。」—— 海倫．布朗（Helen Brown），《電訊報》（Telegraph）「極其誠實……我發現它引人入勝，難以直視卻又讓人愛不釋手。」—— 諾瑪．克拉克（Norma Clarke），《文學評論》（Literary Review）「他同時以一個兒子與一名社會學者的身份，記述了母親的生與死……這種體裁特別適合我們的時代，因為我們日益理解社會階級如何形塑人生的路徑。」—— 賽門．庫柏（Simon Kuper），《金融時報》（Financial Times）「獨特且動人……文化引用的廣度令人驚嘆，且其解讀極具層次……他對老年如何在公眾討論中被忽視（這對任何人均無益處）的診斷非常精準，特別是考慮到數十年來關於英國社會照護模式永續性的爭論。」—— 富蘭克林．尼爾森（Franklin Nelson），《觀察家報》（Spectator）「艾里本的這本書充滿了憂鬱，但它不僅強調了團結與政治鬥爭的重要性，更強調了生存的基本社會維度，以及當我們與他人斷絕聯繫時所失去的一切。」—— 巴托羅密歐．薩拉（Bartolomeo Sala），《雅各賓》（Jacobin）對《回歸漢斯》（Returning to Reims）的讚譽：「一本深具智慧且深刻探索的書，它會讓你重新審視自己的人生敘事，並重構你對自己講述的故事……迪迪耶．艾里本理解不平等的根源有多深。」—— 希拉蕊．曼特爾（Hilary Mantel）「艾里本展現了一個由理論解放而出的啟蒙生活範例，其寫作風格靈巧地在親密感、社會性與政治性之間遊走。」—— 安妮．艾諾（Annie Ernaux）「《回歸漢斯》在我的生命中扮演了至關重要的角色……我被這本書徹底震撼，感覺自己正在閱讀我的人生故事。」—— 愛德華．路易（Edouard Louis）ReviewA frank and moving story . . . an urgent plea for the elderly to be treated with more respect -- Helen Brown ― TelegraphSearingly honest . . . I found it compelling, hard to read and hard to put down -- Norma Clarke ― Literary ReviewHe recounts his mother’s life and death both as a son and as a sociologist . . . a genre that’s particularly suited to our age, with its growing understanding of how social class shapes life-paths -- Simon Kuper ― Financial TimesUniquely moving... the breadth of cultural references... is stunning, and the readings of them are nuanced... His diagnosis of how old age, to nobody's benefit, is neglected in public discourse is spot on, especially in view of the decades-old debate about a sustainable British social care model -- Franklin Nelson ― SpectatorEribon’s is a book laden with melancholy, but one that stresses the importance not just of solidarity and political struggle but also the fundamental social dimension of existence, and what we lose when we are cut off from others -- Bartolomeo Sala ― JacobinPraise for Returning to Reims -- - ― :A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself... Didier Eribon understands how deep the roots of inequality go -- Hilary MantelEribon offers up a magnificent example of an enlightened life liberated by theory, written in a style that deftly moves between the intimate, the social and the political -- Annie ErnauxReturning to Reims played a capital role in my life... I was overwhelmed by this book. I felt I was reading the story of my life -- Edouard Louis

作者介紹

作者介紹 迪迪耶．艾希邦 (Didier Eribon)法國亞眠大學（University of Amiens）社會學教授。他的著作豐富，包括暢銷全球的《回歸漢斯》（Returning to Reims）、權威傳記《米歇爾．傅柯》（Michael Foucault），以及《侮辱與同志自我的形塑》（Insult and the Making of the Gay Self）等多部批判理論專著。Didier Eribon (Author)Didier Eribon is Professor of Sociology at the University of Amiens. His books include the bestselling Returning to Reims, the biography Michael Foucault, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self, and numerous other books of critical theory.

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最佳賣點 : 【社會學大師的哀悼與控訴：當母親老去，誰為她發聲？】迪迪耶．艾希邦將失去母親的悲慟，化為對階級與老年的冷靜沉思。透過養老院的生命末路，結合波娃與傅柯的視角，他誠實剖析被社會遺忘的照護困境。這是一部跨越性別與貧窮，難以直視卻深具力量的生命肖像。

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