Claudia Durastanti
Italian writer and translator
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Jun 26, 2026
“You’re Doing the Work for Them”: Claudia Durastanti on Class and Literature
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Lauren OylerHOST
And I'm wondering like what exactly you mean specifically by like what is political working class literature and what is the difference between political working class literature and literature that represents the working class?

Claudia DurastantiGUEST
So I think my open critique was with this you know double bind between the class discourse and the fact that it's usually formatted into auto-fictional or is relating to the factory that was, you know, the working in the fields of the grandparents, In the piece, I argued that middle-class writers and working-class writers who specialized and transfused the class narratives are both deeply interested in this idea of guilt about the money or shame about, you know, betraying your own circumstances.

Claudia DurastantiGUEST
The very idea of being, you know, authentic is really, it was really important, I think, up to my generation, to the millennials.

Claudia DurastantiGUEST
And so when this, even this idea of selling out was fades, what happens to be in a political subject in your own class account.

Claudia DurastantiGUEST
So I think not when I when we say political novel, I was at the Working Class Literature Festival.