Ma distinction spectacle par Wally

In this story, Lilian Derruau connects his experiences as a “working-class kid” to the ideas of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Not content with simply recounting memories of his early childhood, he paints a picture of working-class France in the 1970s in a text where earthiness and self-deprecation go hand in hand.

Long known as a comical singer under the name Wally, he takes on a completely different role here: sociological narrative—but in his own style, one that provokes laughter with a touch of poetry and a wealth of emotion.

A time of carefree youth, followed by the realization of a kind of social predestination from which it is very difficult to escape. Always touching, Wally tells his story with humor and self-deprecation. With tenderness. With modesty. Always with a twinkle in his eye.