Mikael Ødegård’s Reviews > Skammen > Status Update

Different time and different place. But when Ernaux describes the poverty they are in, I keep being struck by the seeming optimism of the time. Factories are opening up, people are moving to the town, things are being rebuilt. I still se and hear what she says about class, but her perspective still -to me- appears to contain the air of optimism that was prevalent at the time.