Faced with the observation of his failure, he decided to flee, and ended up leaving the path that had been traced to him to join a high school in Amiens where he discovered another social class whose codes were different.įrench journalist and writer Pierre Vavasseur speaks of "a first novel that sets fire to the new school year" and notes the enthusiasm of the press and critics. Eddy Bellegueule eventually became aware of his sexual attraction to men, and his disgust with heterosexual relationships, but tried to get back to the norm. The narrator's experiences depict a world where poverty and alcohol accompany social reproduction that leads women to become cashiers after dropping out of school and men to move from school to the factory. The End of Eddy narrates Eddy Bellegueule's ("original patronymic" of the author) childhood and adolescence in a Picardy village, the rejection he undergoes because of his effeminate ways from the people of the village and his own family, the violence and humiliations he endure in an environment where we don't like "faggots". "For the first time my pronounced name does not name " In the epigraph is a quote from Marguerite Duras: The result - a critical and popular triumph - has made him the most celebrated French writer of his generation.Dedicated to Didier Eribon, whose author appreciated the Returning to Reims, this first novel by Édouard Louis is in two parts, named "Book I" and "Book II" and entitled "Picardie (late 1990s - early 2000s)" and "L'échec et la fuite", followed by an epilogue. 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.
It is also a sensitive, universal portrait of boyhood and sexual awakening. Already translated into twenty languages, The End of Eddy captures the violence and desperation of life in a French factory town. But from childhood, he was different - "girlish," intellectually precocious, and attracted to other men. 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. "Every morning in the bathroom I would repeat the same phrase to myself over and over again.
"An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy.
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