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No Fixed Abode: Ethnofiction (French List) - Softcover

Augé, Marc

 
9780857426345: No Fixed Abode: Ethnofiction (French List)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0857426346 ISBN 13: 9780857426345
Verlag: Seagull Books London Ltd, 2019

Inhaltsangabe

In recent years, social workers have raised a new concern about the appearance of a new category among the working poor. Even employed, there are people so overburdened by the cost of living and so under compensated that they cannot afford a place to sleep. Contrary to popular opinion, according to the website for the Coalition for the Homeless, forty-four percent of the homeless in first world countries actually have jobs.

In No Fixed Abode, Marc Augé&;s pathbreaking ethnofiction&;a fictional ethnography&;a man named Henri narrates his strange existence in the margins of Paris. By day he walks the streets, lingers in conversation with the local shopkeepers, and sits writing in cafés, but at night he takes shelter in an abandoned house. From here, we see a progressive erosion of Henri&;s identity, a loss of bearings, and a slow degeneration of his ability to relate to others. But then he meets the artist Dominique, whose willingness to share her life with him raises questions about who he has become and about what a person needs in order to be a part of society.

This is a book about how we live in geographical space and how work and patterns of domicile affect our status and our inner being. Despite the apparent simplicity of the fictional premise, Augé&;s book asks serious questions about the nature of our culture.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marc Augé, born in Poitiers in 1935, is one of France&;s most eminent anthropologists. He is best known in the English-speaking world for the book Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropologyof Supermodernity.Chris Turner is a writer and translator who lives in Birmingham, England.

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Verlag
Seagull Books London Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2019
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0857426346
ISBN 13 
9780857426345
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Anzahl der Seiten
80
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