Even when money is tight, Jacky feels ambivalent about his wife Brigitte working; not being the family’s sole breadwinner is one of many emasculations he has a hard time stomaching. The Bellegueles ...

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 ...

Here are a few quick details to keep in mind about the Outplay Films documentary flick. The Many Lives of Edouard Louis starring Édouard Louis has a Not Rated rating, a runtime of about 1 hr 12 min.

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 ...

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 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 is brutal, ...

In a way, as a gay boy, I was born a performer,” the celebrated young French writer Édouard Louis tells me late last week when I meet up with him after a performance of his one-man show Who Killed My ...

Who Killed My Father, by French writer Édouard Louis (lyrically translated by Lorin Stein), is a brief, poetic telling of the myriad ways societal contempt, homophobia, and poverty can kill a man.

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’ ...