Edouard Louis

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Édouard Louis , born Eddy Bellegueule (born October 30, 1992 in Hallencourt ), is a French writer and student who landed a bestseller in France with his debut novel En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule 2014 (German The End of Eddy ).

Live and act

Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule in 1992, comes from simple, difficult circumstances and grew up in the small village of Hallencourt in Picardy. Even as a child he experienced repeated discrimination , bullying and violence because of his homosexuality , which finally led him to move to Amiens and later to Paris and change his name. There he studied as a student of Didier Eribon at the two elite universities Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) and the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en sciences sociales (EHESS) Sociology and dealt in detail with the work of the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu , about whom he a book wrote. He dedicated his first novel to Éribon.

In his first literary work, En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule , Louis describes the problems of a youthful outsider with a homosexual background in the French provinces. The attempts to adapt and the failure of these attempts, which ultimately force him to flee to the city, are presented in detail. The novel is autobiographical; it has been sold around 200,000 times in France so far. The 2017 film Marvin by the French director Anne Fontaine is based on the novel by Louis.

Together with his friend, French philosopher and sociologist Geoffroy de Lagasnerie , Louis wrote a manifesto for an intellectual and political counter-offensive in 2015 , which appeared in the newspaper Le Monde and later in the Los Angeles Review of Books and the anthology How we want to live . In it you turned against the European austerity policy , the Socialist Party of France and the attention given to extremely right-wing opinions in public discourse. In response, they formulated principles for a new commitment by left intellectuals.

In the novel In the Heart of Violence , published in 2016, Louis describes a rape by an Algerian whom he met one night, the subsequent attempted murder by the rapist and his own awareness of briefly becoming a xenophobic person. However, this book, like the previous one, is about more to him:

“I wanted to turn violence into a literary place, like Marguerite Duras did with passion or Claude Simon with war. It's about violence, which is mostly invisible. This is exactly where the power of literature lies: to show the invisible with words. "

The novel In the Heart of Violence was performed as a stage version for the Schaubühne am Lehniner Platz in Berlin under the direction of Thomas Ostermeier from June 2018 .

In May 2017, the published New York Times on the occasion of the French presidential election a comment by Édouard Louis under the title Why My Father Votes for Le Pen (German: Why my father Le Pen selects ) in which he describes why his entstamme Direction working-class father feels no longer represented by the left parties and therefore supports the right party Front National (today: Rassemblement National ). Louis also takes up this topic in his third novel Who killed my father , published in 2018 . In it he describes the physical decline of his father, who after an accident at work, despite back pain, accepts a job as a garbage collector in order not to lose his right to social benefits. The novel was viewed in France as a criticism of the social and austerity policies under Jacques Chirac , Nicolas Sarkozy and Emmanuel Macron , but also the socialist government under François Hollande , which Louis also attacks directly. Louis also referred to the motif of the body drawn by heavy work in his statement on the yellow vests movement , which first appeared in December 2018 on the French website Les Inrockuptibles and was finally published in German on ZEIT ONLINE . Louis acknowledges that participants in the yellow vest protests have expressed themselves racist and homophobic , but still speaks out in favor of the continuation of the movement, because "it finally makes the faces and voices visible and audible that are normally banned into invisibility" and so on reveals the suffering of the precariat under the class system .

Édouard Louis has been teaching at Dartmouth College in the USA since 2016 ; from July 2018 he will also be a visiting professor at the Peter Szondi Institute of the Free University of Berlin .

Works

  • Together with Geoffroy de Lagasnerie : Manifesto for an intellectual and political counter-offensive (in German in the volume How we want to live (Ed .: Matthias Jügler), Suhrkamp 2016).

Awards

Web links

Commons : Édouard Louis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Seronet: Qui est vraiment Eddy Bellegueule? Retrieved December 28, 2016
  2. ↑ Édouard Louis: "In the heart of violence" - The escalation of a spontaneous night of love . In: Deutschlandfunk . ( deutschlandfunk.de [accessed December 3, 2017]).
  3. ^ Carolin Weidner: Coming-of-Age-Film: Light at the end of the tunnel . In: Spiegel Online . July 4, 2018 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 18, 2019]).
  4. ↑ geoffroydelagasnerie: Manifeste pour une contre-offensive intellectuelle et politique. In: Le site de Geoffroy de Lagasnerie. September 26, 2015, accessed on February 18, 2019 (fr-fr).
  5. ^ Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Edouard Louis: Manifesto for an Intellectual and Political Counteroffensive. Retrieved February 18, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Manifesto of the "Young Savages" - Intellectuals of France, get involved! Retrieved on February 18, 2019 (German).
  7. ↑ Edouard Louis. In the heart of violence. Novel; on pearl divers. de, November 6, 2017 (blurb, excerpt and review notes)
  8. ↑ Alex Rühle: How a rape becomes a literary reappraisal . In: sueddeutsche.de . September 3, 2017, ISSN  0174-4917 ( sueddeutsche.de [accessed December 3, 2017]).
  9. ↑ Elisabeth von Thadden: "In the heart of violence": With a living body . In: The time . June 7, 2018, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 18, 2019]).
  10. ↑ Beyond the pain threshold. Retrieved February 18, 2019 .
  11. ^ Édouard Louis: Opinion | Why My Father Votes for Le Pen . In: The New York Times . May 4, 2017, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 18, 2019]).
  12. ↑ a b Miryam Schellbach: The story of the battered body . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 26, 2018, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 17 ( taz.de [accessed on February 18, 2019]).
  13. ^ Edouard Louis polarized in France - A neo-Marxist pamphlet. Retrieved on February 18, 2019 (German).
  14. ↑ Iris Radisch: "Who killed my father": Macron steals my father . In: The time . January 25, 2019, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 18, 2019]).
  15. ↑ Edouard Louis: “Chaque personne qui insultait un gilet jaune insultait mon père”. Retrieved February 18, 2019 (fr-fr).
  16. ↑ a b Édouard Louis: Yellow vests: Whoever offends them, offends my father . In: The time . December 5, 2018, ISSN  0044-2070 ( zeit.de [accessed February 18, 2019]).
  17. ^ Author Édouard Louis becomes visiting professor at the FU. June 6, 2018, accessed June 18, 2018 (German).
  18. ↑ The French writer Édouard Louis becomes visiting professor in Berlin | NZZ . June 6, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed February 18, 2019]).
  19. ↑ Hell is somewhere else. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , February 15, 2015, p. 38
  20. ↑ Homophobia in the Province: A Heart Closed Like an Oyster Der Spiegel , February 19, 2015
  21. ↑ How we want to live: Texts for Solidarity and Freedom Ed .: Matthias Jügler - Suhrkamp Insel books book detail. Retrieved December 3, 2017 .
  22. ↑ The gangster with the tender skin in FAZ from September 21, 2017, page 10
  23. ↑ About Edouard Louis. perlentaucher.de, accessed on December 3, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Louis, Édouard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bellegueule, Eddy (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French writer and student
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH near Amiens , Picardy , France