A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on “the gay question”

DIVPublished in English for the first time, Didier Eribon’ s well-received and celebrated work on a philosophy of and examination of gay life./div

This essay focuses on the possibility of social and personal transformation which was opened up by the gay liberation movement in France, which the author terms

'A deeply intelligent and searching book, one that makes you re-consider the narrative of your own life and reframe the story you tell yourself' Hilary Mantel "

Never Say I reveals the centrality of representations of sexuality, and particularly same-sex sexual relations, to the evolution of literary prose forms in twen