Transclass

And I was thinking as I was writing the review, how...

Camus is also one of these people that the French would call transfuge de classe, you know, a sort of transfuge from the class they started from and who, through writing, through culture, have moved out of the working class and into some sort of classless rather than upper class cultural world, you know, anierno.

is very alive to that you know she mentioned that in in her uh nobel acceptance speech and various other contemporary french writers like didier ribon edouard louis are very conscious of this transfuge of class and i think camus feels it he feels it very very strongly and these notebooks bring it out

And you feel it too with its emotional resonance.

The reason being that she couldn't read, and she is fictionalized in that novel, which I think is... unfinished as it is a masterpiece Camus the first man it's like he was becoming a whole new writer but maybe he was also becoming maybe he felt he was becoming the writer he was meant to be having in a sense paid his dues to to the big questions you know freedom responsibility responsibility to others self other and so on maybe he felt he'd he'd done all of those things in the already quite remarkable oeuvre that he had accomplished.

And now he was going to write the novel that was about, well, I think not just about himself, it's more than autobiographical, but it's about a completely different way of life and way of living.

That situation, that class, that transfuge de classe, always feels like a kind of English thing.

It's a bit like that, you know, that generation of kind of grammar school kids whose lives were often very changed.