“You’re Doing the Work for Them”: Claudia Durastanti on Class and Literature

aus Airlift from Berlin Review · 26.06.2026 · 54 Min.

Beschreibung

A writer grows up poor, escapes her circumstances and writes about it with a mix of shame, guilt and pride. It’s one of the most classic tales in modern literature, and Claudia Durastanti thinks the story stopped being true just as the genre boomed. In this conversation, she and Lauren Oyler talk about autofiction, transfuge de classe narratives and what could be written instead.