Book Review: From Didier Eribon to Enrique Lihn

Returning to Reims, from Didier Eribon (Taurus)On the night of December 31, he called his mother to wish her a good new year. “I was just called from the clinic. Your father died an hour ago,” she told her. “I didn’t want it. I never wanted it,” writes Didier Eribon. But with the father’s death he began a reflection on his origins and a return to his city, Reims, from which he escaped 30 years earlier. French philosopher and sociologist, biograp…