Édouard Louis, for a combat literature
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The writer Édouard Louis, in the studio, at RFI.
© Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint / RFI
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
31 min
After a very noticed first novel “Enfining with Eddy Bellegueule” (2014) followed by “Histoire de la violence” and “Qui a morte mon père”, translated into more than twenty languages, Édouard Louis has just published a new novel dedicated to his family, published under the title “Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme” by Editions du Seuil where he portrays his mother.
Also essayist and author under his direction of the book “Pierre Bourdieu.
Insubordination as a heritage ”(PUF, 2013), he created and directs the collection“ Des Mots ”at the Presses Universitaires de France, and has just published a book of interviews with the British filmmaker Ken Loach with this publisher. on art and politics ”.
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For much of her life, my mother lived in poverty and need, isolated from it all, crushed and sometimes even humiliated by male violence.
Her existence seemed bounded forever by this double domination, class domination and that linked to her condition as a woman.
However, one day, at forty-five, she rebelled against this life, she fled and little by little she established her freedom.
This book is the story of this metamorphosis
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Battles and Metamorphoses of a Woman, by Édouard Louis.
Threshold editions
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