An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. "Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again . . . Today I'm really gonna be a tough guy." Growing up in a poor village in northern France, all Eddy Bellegueule wanted was to be a man in the eyes of his family and neighbors. But from childhood, he was different--"girlish," intellectually precocious, and attracted to other men. Already translated into twenty-nine languages, The End of Eddy captures the violence and desperation of life in a French factory town. It is also a sensitive, universal portrait of boyhood and sexual awakening. Like Karl Ove Knausgaard or Edmund White, Édouard Louis writes from his own undisguised experience, but he writes with an openness and a compassionate intelligence that are all his own. The result--a critical and popular triumph--has made him the most celebrated French writer of his generation.
Sobre o autor(a)
Louis, Édouard
Édouard Louis é um escritor francês. O fim de Eddy, seu primeiro romance, já foi
traduzido para mais de 20 idiomas. Em História da violência, volta a lidar com temas
como sexualidade, sistema de classes sociais e, claro, todas as formas de violência.
Nasceu na vila operária de Hallencourt, no norte da França, e é formado pela École des
Hautes Études em Sciences Sociales. |