In a book crowded with tormentors, it’s the casual brutality of Jacky, the boy’s father, that leaves the strongest impression. Eddy describes his father’s words, his relentless bullying and public ...

Joan Didion once wrote that we tell ourselves stories in order to live. We might read them for the same reason. But sometimes a story is so intense that we stop midway through and ask ourselves, ...

Marcel Proust had his madeleine soaked in tea to launch him on his search for time lost. Eddy Bellegueule, the young, yearning soul and punching-bag protagonist of French author Édouard Louis’ ...

Édouard Louis’s fourth novel, “A Woman’s Battles and Transformations,” focuses on his mother’s life. By Wyatt Mason When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an ...

In his incandescent autofiction, Édouard Louis has remade his painful youth as literature, and in doing so has become one of his country’s most famous literary exports. His debut, “The End of Eddy,” ...

Édouard Louis is a French novelist and critic. His third book, Who Killed My Father, an indictment of France’s neglect of the rural working class, is out from New Directions today. He spoke with ...

PARIS — Édouard Louis uses literature as a weapon. “I write to shame the dominant class,” said the 25-year-old French writer in a recent interview. This confrontational approach began with the ...