Each week during confinement, Frédéric Taddeï questions guests no longer "En Balade", but by telephone, to ask them how they live this very special period. The writer Edouard Louis, very committed to the left, has a highly political reading of this event.

Committed, Edouard Louis is involved in his novels and essays. But also during confinement. The author of En Finish with Eddy Bellegueule , guest of Frédéric Taddéï on Europe 1, sees in effect the house arrest requested of all French people a revealer, "a kind of magnifying mirror" across the world, and in particular its inequalities. "Basically, the comfort of some always costs work and the suffering of others. Pleasure always has a counterpart. This confinement comes to reveal this in an even more violent way. It is as if, in a moment of crisis like that, the truths appeared more clearly. "

"People continue to work in the supermarket, in the factory"

What truths? For Edouard Louis, who "feels a form of anger", we are entitled to wonder "if this confinement is not more social than health". Because the coronavirus is more dangerous for vulnerable people, those who already have health problems in particular. However, "they are often people who are not confined, who work in factories, in supermarkets," writes the writer.

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"I have in my family people who are obese, who have heart and body problems because they have difficult living conditions. And these people today continue to work in the supermarket, at factory, continue to deliver. People in my family work at Amazon. " And allow, assures Edouard to Louis, people who are better classified socially to continue to be able to do their shopping and enjoy a certain "comfort". 

"Basically, I wonder if we don't tend at the moment to accept the words of power. Is this confinement really sanitary? Isn't it rather social?" Wonders the writer who never held its blows against government policy. This confinement is for him "a kind of moment of truth about the way the world works, with its hierarchies, its violence, its inequalities". 

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"A violent redistribution between legitimate domestic unity and illegitimate lives"

A moment of truth, too, on social and family norms. "I am gay, and like many gays, I have organized all my life around friendship," says Edouard Louis. "And suddenly, these things are banned, prohibited. This is what Geoffroy de Lagasnerie [philosopher, sociologist and close friend of Edouard Louis, Editor's note] said, this confinement organized a kind of familialism. You can see his children, live with them. If there is shared custody, we can even cross all of France to pick up a child and bring him back. But we cannot see friends, lovers, people we love. "

For Edouard Louis, "there is therefore a violent redistribution of what is considered a legitimate domestic unit, [as opposed to] domestic units and illegitimate lives."