Wednesday, April 1, 2020

Who Killed Whose Father!?

We've read Édouard Louis' The End of Eddy. I've read and expect we'll eventually discuss his second "autofiction" A History of Violence. Both of these and the life that lies behind them (and it's not merely completist to exclude no sense of "lie"!) are interestingly discussed in Elizabeth Zerofsky's feature article in last Sunday's New York Times Magazine.

I haven't read his third "work" Who Killed My Father  and though it's mentioned in the article—even featured in this photo

A scene from the stage adaptation of Louis’s novel ‘‘Who Killed My Father.”

—it's barely mentioned. Or maybe not. Much of the second half deals with his political actions ("Louis sees literature to a large extant as a political project"), his alliance with the Eribon-Lagasnerie "factory", and the rise of the gilets-jaunes. All of this very interesting to be sure, and complicated in the typically French way, but hanging out or over like some burst appendix.

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