L'origine sociale, clé de la relation avec le monde dans « La Honte » d'Annie Ernaux

Abstract

We intend to do an analysis of family and school norms and values as they are presented in Annie Ernaux's "La Honte" by a feminine narrator-character, who relates her existence to a crucial moment, namely by placing face-to-face these two universes which turn out to be very different at all levels. School has a contradictory and unhinging role, revealing to the narrator-character her belonging to a social class which is dominated and perceived as being an inferior class. In our context, the contact with school universe generates the self's fracture, a reconsideration of the family values and norms and will represent a factor of integration into a superior class and a disintegration from her origin life forms. As theoretical basis for this study we are going to use the sociological analyses provided by Pierre Bourdieu in "Les Héritiers"/ "The Inheritors" and "La Distinction"/ "Distinction".