Writer Didier Eribon: ‘My mother was unhappy her whole life’
Didier Eribon’s mémoire,The Life, Old Age, and Death of a Working-Class Woman, about his mother reviewed in the FT).
Did writing the book change his expectations of his own old age? “No, because it’s always too soon or too late. For now it’s too soon, and I imagine that when the time comes it will be too late. I don’t envisage my own old age. That characterises many people.” [emphasis added]