Edouard Louis’ autofiction tells of the path he took to become a famous writer.
, an account of growing up gay and poor in the post-industrial north of France. There followed, about being raped and almost murdered by a man he picked up in the street, and two loving, ambivalent portraits of his parents,, which doubled as a denunciation of the neoliberal turn in French politics, and, about his mother’s late-life flourishing after she left Louis’ father.Arnaud Delrue
The first stage in the ascent is from the village to the nearest big town, Amiens. Here he attends senior high school, the first in his family to do so, and befriends Elena, a bourgeoisie who introduces him to the finer things. This section is addressed to his father: “I understood that the lycée was the beginning of our separation, with no going back.”
The friendship with Eribon causes a break with Elena and other people from Amiens turn against him once he has the bad taste to get into the ENS. All of a sudden, he is “egotistical, ambitious”. Louis has trouble disagreeing, though he also has trouble agreeing. By now he is speaking to Elena, not his father.
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