My Distinction: The Story of a Worker's Son Who Became an Artist

Theater play

In this story, Lilian Derruau connects his experiences as a "working-class kid" with the ideas of sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. Not content with simply recounting memories of his early childhood, he depicts working-class France in the 1970s in a text where earthiness and self-deprecation go hand in hand.

A longtime singer with a humorous streak under the name Wally, we find him here in a completely different register: a sociological narrative, but in his own way, one that provokes laughter with a touch of poetry and a wealth of emotion. A time of carefree fun, then of awareness of a form of social predestination from which it is very difficult to escape.

Always touching, Wally tells us his story. He tells it with humor and self-deprecation. With tenderness. With modesty. Always with a smile in the corner of his eye.