No Fixed Abode - Ethnofiction (Paperback)

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 Auge'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 cafes, 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, Auge's book asks serious questions about the nature of our culture.

General

Imprint:	Seagull Books London Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	The French List
Release date:	May 2019
Translators:	Chris Turner
Authors:	Marc Auge
Dimensions:	204 x 113 x 1mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	80
ISBN-13:	978-0-85742-634-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Books > Philosophy > General
LSN:	0-85742-634-6
Barcode:	9780857426345

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