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Revision as of 08:52, 15 July 2014
Édouard Louis | |
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 Édouard Louis at Columbia University, 2014 | |
| Born | Eddy Bellegueule October 10, 1992 Picardie, France |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | French |
| Genre | Novel, drama; Non-Fiction, Sociology |
Édouard Louis (born Eddy Bellegueule;[1] October 30, 1992)[2] is a French writer.
Biography
Édouard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule[3] was born and raised in the North of France, which is the setting of his first novel En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule.
Louis grew-up in a poor family supported by government welfare: his father was an unemployed factory worker and his mother found occasional work bathing the elderly.[4] The poverty, racism and alcoholism which confronted him during his childhood and which were prevalent in his social class would become the subject of his literary work.[5]
He is the first in his family to attend university, and in 2011 he was admitted to École Normale Supérieure in Paris.[6] In 2013, he officially changed his name to Édouard Louis.[7]
The same year, he edited the collective work, Pierre Bourdieu. L'insoumission en héritage, published by Presses Universitaires de France, which analyses the influence of Pierre Bourdieu on critical thinking and political emancipation.[8] It was with this same publisher that he created "Des Mots", a series of texts on the humanities and social sciences, the first of which featured essays from Georges Didi-Huberman and Didier Eribon.[9]
In January, 2014, at the age of 21, he published En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, an autobiographical novel. The book was the subject of a large amount media attention and was hailed for its literary merit and compelling story.[10]
It also gave rise to debate and controversy over the perception of the working class.[11] The book was the top seller in France, selling more than 200,000 copies in the months following its release, and it is currently being translated in over 20 languages.[12] Didier Eribon spoke of the "enormous feat" of the book and Le Monde and Les Inrocks praised Louis as "a great writer, who calls to mind Thomas Bernhard," while Xavier Dolan points out "the unmistakable authenticity of the dialogues, as if Edward Louis has been writing forever."[13]
Style and influences
The work of Édouard Louis maintains a fine link with sociology: the presence of Pierre Bourdieu pervades En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, which invokes the themes of social exclusion, domination, and poverty. The influence of William Faulkner is also revealed; Louis' style is characterized by the superposition in the same sentence of various levels of language – placing the popular vernacular at the heart of his writing. The author says that by working languages, he wants to use violence as a literary subject, "I want to make violence a literary space, like Marguerite Duras made a literary space of madness or as Claude Simon made war into a literary space."[14]
The greatest contemporary influence on Louis comes from French sociologist Didier Eribon, whose book "Returning to Reims" Louis says, "marked a turning point for his future as a writer."[15]
Works
Novels
- En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule. Le Seuil. 2014. ISBN 9782021117707.
Non-Fiction
- Pierre Bourdieu. L'insoumission en héritage, Édouard Louis (editor), Annie Ernaux, Didier Eribon, Arlette Farge, Frédéric Lordon, Geoffroy de Lagasnerie et Frédéric Lebaron, (Presses Universitaires de France, 2013; ISBN 978-2-13-061935-2)
- Foucault contre lui-même: François Caillat (editor), Édouard Louis (director), avec Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Arlette Farge, Didier Eribon, (Presses Universitaires de France, 2014; ISBN 978-2-13-063289-4)
Awards
- 2014 : Pierre Guénin Prize against homophobia and for equal rights, for his work En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule.
Notes and References
- ^ Curtet-Poulner, Isabelle (February 15, 2014). "En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule: chronicle of the popular hate" (Review) (in French). Marianne. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Louis signe un premier roman époustouflant, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, son patronyme originel.
- ^ Notice autorité BnF
- ^ Curtet-Poulner, Isabelle (February 15, 2014). "En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule: chronicle of the popular hate" (Review) (in French). Marianne. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Louis signe un premier roman époustouflant, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule, son patronyme originel.
- ^ Pascaud, Fabienne (January 25, 2014). "En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule" (Review) (in French). Telerama. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
le père est depuis longtemps au chômage après s'être bousillé le dos à l'usine, et où la mère nettoie les vieillards du village.
- ^ Fruchon-Toussaint, Catherine (March 13, 2014). "Édouard Louis, Literary Phenomenon at 21" (Radio Transcript) (in French). Radio France Internationale. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
Vous y racontez vos jeunes années, de 9 à 13 ans essentiellement, dans le nord de la France, où vous êtes né et vous avez été élevé dans une famille souffrant d'une grande misère, avec au quotidien l'alcoolisme, la pauvreté, le chômage, le désert culturel.
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- ^ Biography in Le Monde des Livres
- ^ Présentation de l'ouvrage sur le Site de l'éditeur.
- ^ Najibi, Halima (April 8, 2014). "Eddy Bellegueule goes to PUF with "des mots"" (Review) (in French). France3. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
lEdouard Louis, originaire de Picardie et auteur d'En Finir avec Eddy Bellegueule s'apprête à piloter une collection qu Presses Universitaires de France.
- ^ For example in L'Express, Marianne, Télérama, on France Culture, France 2 (from 39'), etc.
- ^ Philippe, Elizabeth (March 15, 2014). "Edouard Louis: "What I wrote in 'Eddy Bellegueule' has been lived"" (Interview) (in French). Les Inrocks. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
lLe journaliste se permet des choses à l'égard des classes populaires qu'il ne se serait pas permis à l'égard des dominants. C'est l'expression d'un racisme de classe insupportable.
- ^ Swanson, Claire (February 21, 2014). "New Releases on Top in January" (News). Publishers Weekly. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
lA handful of new titles topped the bestseller lists in the international markets at the start of 2014. In France, 21-year-old Edouard Louis's debut novel, Finishing Off Eddy Bellegueule, came in at #1.
- ^ Bonnaud, Frédéric (May 7, 2014). "The Editorial of Frederic Bonnaud: Xavier Dolan and Edouard Louis, the possibility of flight" (Interview) (in French). Les Inrocks. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
qui possède une oreille littéraire digne d'un Thomas Bernhard.
- ^ Des Lys, Richard (April 29, 2014). "Édouard Louis: The Literary Shock" (Interview) (in French). Etre. Retrieved 13 July 2014.
"La violence a été le projet fondateur de mon livre. Je voulais faire de la violence un espace littéraire, comme Duras a fait avec la passion, la folie. Ou comme Claude Simon a fait pour la guerre. Ou Hervé Guibert, pour la maladie. C'est une violence qui la plupart du temps ne se voit pas. Justement, la puissance de la littérature pour moi, c'est montrer avec les mots l'invisible. ".
- ^ Petrowski, Nathalie (May 28, 2014). "Family: I hate you" (Interview) (in French). La Presse. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
Le premier livre qui marquera un tournant pour le futur écrivain paraît en 2009. C'est Retour de Reims de Didier Eribon.