6/21/2023 0 Comments The end of eddy by édouard louisI had to escape,” Louis, the man, acknowledges, but “all my childhood I did everything I could to fit in, to be considered as normal. His follow-up, A History of Violence, concerns a rape and attempt on Louis’ life that occurred in 2012 and has been the subject of legal action. When it was first published in France in 2015, The End of Eddy sold 300,000 copies and was subsequently translated into twenty languages. So my book blames not my parents, not the people of the village, not those who assaulted me everyday in the corridor when I was in middle school, who would spit on me and tell me, ‘You faggot’-the book blames the system.”įor the way in which he candidly yet carefully constructed his brutal childhood within a powerful coming-of-age novel, Louis arrives in the United States (where his novel is published this month in a translation by Michael Lucey) as the bright young thing of the French literary world-an enfant terrible unafraid to discuss the nation’s dark underbelly. “If you are subjected to endless violence, you will end up doing violent things, of course. “Every day, every minute was full of violence in my childhood,” Louis told me in a recent interview in London, yet he views that violence as an inevitable product of class oppression.
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