Édouard Louis, the author of the autobiographical novels The End of Eddy andThe History of Violence, at his home in Paris, June 19, 2018. ... History of Violence, by Edouard Louis.

Late in Édouard Louis’s new novel, “A Woman’s Battles and Transformations,” a mother receives a colorful envelope in the mail. She is in her early 40s, crushingly poor, her family’s ...

As in previous books, Louis commingles the personal and the political. He tackles head on the homophobia, racism, chauvinism and class hatred rampant back home. But again, ...

Louis’s writing has Anglo-Saxon origins; the first books he read were the Harry Potter series from JK Rowling. “Like Harry Potter, I felt disconnected from the world I was living in.

In 2014, the French writer Édouard Louis published “The End of Eddy,” a roman à clef based on his childhood in Hallencourt, a small town in the north of France. The world that it describes ...

Louis is unsure why he is fixated on his past, so he ventures into his memories to look for answers, and as a result he rehearses many of the narrative beats that are familiar to his ardent readers.

In two new books, Who Killed My Father (translated by Lorin Stein) and A Woman’s Battles and Transformations (translated by Tash Aw), Louis continues to mine the personal to write about the ...

“Change,” Louis’s fifth book, translated from French by John Lambert, is about the strain his efforts at transformation placed on him. Though labeled “a novel,” its amorphousness ensures ...

Louis’s follow-up books further mined the seams of his personal experience. Who Killed My Father (2018) dramatised the story of Louis’s father following an industrial accident that left him ...

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. For French Author Édouard Louis, His ...