"The Hillbilly Elegy of France . . . The End of Eddy, however, is not just a remarkable ethnography. It is also a mesmerizing story about difference and adolescence, one that is far more realistic than most.” ―Jennifer Senior, The New York Times
"Canny . . . brilliant . . . a devastating emotional force.” ―Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker
"The Hillbilly Elegy of France . . . The End of Eddy, however, is not just a remarkable ethnography. It is also a mesmerizing story about difference and adolescence, one that is far more realistic than most.” ―Jennifer Senior, The New York Times
"Canny . . . brilliant . . . a devastating emotional force.” ―Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker
“Louis' account of growing up gay and poor in a working-class village isn't only a story about France. Just released in a highly readable translation by Michael Lucey, this painfully insightful tale of entrapment and escape could've easily been set in Michigan or West Virginia . . . While Eddy's parents are both vivid characters―Louis has a great ear for their patois―what makes the novel special is the way it expands outward. Louis shows how his parents' values have been shaped by a profound sense of powerlessness shared with their neighbors in the village of Hallencourt, a blue-collar community bleak with unemployment, alcoholism, violence, racism and a deadening sense that life goes nowhere.” ―John Powers, NPR's Fresh Air
“The End of Eddy marks the beginning of a powerful writer’s career.” ―Rick Whitaker, The Washington Post
“Haunting . . . devastating” ―Damian Van Denburgh, The San Francisco Chronicle
“Controversy may have put The End of Eddy in headlines, but it's the nuanced characters and story that make it the rare literary novel that is a modern coming-of-age classic.” ―Mitchell Sunderland, Vice
“A powerful coming-of-age novel . . . Louis arrives in the United States (where his novel is published this month in a translation by Michael Lucey) as the bright young thing of the French literary world―an enfant terrible unafraid to discuss the nation’s dark underbelly." ―Liam Hoare, Slate
"Excellent . . . Already translated into 20 languages, this concise novel adroitly captures the downstream effects of reactionary rural culture, heightened by the rise of hard-right ideology and the destabilization of the working class in contemporary Europe, granting its reader an extraordinary portrait of trauma and escape." ―Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"A seamless, universal portrait of the experience of growing up gay and gradually coming to accept oneself." ―Michael Cart, Booklist (starred review)
"[One of] Europe's new literary superstars . . . Even in the wake of Knausgaard and Ferrante it is hard to find a literary phenomenon that has swept Europe quite like the autobiographical project of Édouard Louis.” ―Ane Farsethas, LitHub
"A bracingly pitiless account of the psychic and physical violence that lies at the root of masculine identity. Louis's remarkably visceral story of growing up queer in working class France quickly transcends its setting precisely because it delivers us into it with such emotional force." ―Adam Haslett, author of Imagine Me Gone
"Èdouard Louis speaks of violence, both social and familiar, with tremendous force and feeling. Revelatory, queerly tough, as intellectual as it is impolite, The End of Eddy is a book to shake you up." ―Justin Torres, author of We the Animals
"The End of Eddy is lean and poignant and masterfully tells the tale of growing up gay, poor, and bullied. No one has told this story as eloquently.” ―Edmund White, author of A Boy's Own Story
"Like a cannonball spilled off the side of a ship, Édouard Louis makes straight for the deeps. The End of Eddy is heart-crushing, soul-stabbing, astonishing, exhilarating. Édouard Louis is exactly the kind of writer we need right now: honest, fearless and, yes, tough." ―Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome
Born Eddy Bellegueule in Hallencourt, France, in 1992, Édouard Louis is a novelist and the editor of a scholarly work on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. He is the coauthor, with the philosopher Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, of “Manifesto for an Intellectual and Political Counteroffensive,” published in English by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Born Eddy Bellegueule in Hallencourt, France, in 1992, Édouard Louis is a novelist and the editor of a scholarly work on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. He is the coauthor, with the philosopher Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, of “Manifesto for an Intellectual and Political Counteroffensive,” published in English by the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Michael Lucey is a professor of French literature at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Never Say I: Sexuality and the First Person in Colette, Gide, and Proust and The Misfit of the Family: Balzac and the Social Forms of Sexuality, and has translated Returning to Reims by Didier Eribon.
At the station he told me to get out of the car, then changed his mind and told me to wait. I was looking at him, surprised, waiting for him to say something disagreeable. He stuck his hand in his pocket and pulled out a twenty-euro note. I knew this was far too much, more than he could or should be giving me. He told me I'd need it, "You're gonna need to eat lunch. I don't want you feeling ash...
At the station he told me to get out of the car, then changed his mind and told me to wait. I was looking at him, surprised, waiting for him to say something disagreeable. He stuck his hand in his pocket and pulled out a twenty-euro note. I knew this was far too much, more than he could or should be giving me. He told me I'd need it, "You're gonna need to eat lunch. I don't want you feeling ash...
At the station he told me to get out of the car, then changed his mind and told me to wait. I was looking at him, surprised, waiting for him to say something disagreeable. He stuck his hand in his pocket and pulled out a twenty-euro note. I knew this was far too much, more than he could or should be giving me. He told me I'd need it, "You're gonna need to eat lunch. I don't want you feeling ash...
0 有用 Donald 2017-09-17 16:31:23
The element of bourgeois voyeurism is pretty strong here.....
0 有用 青Qing 2017-09-18 00:54:37
Very powerful book. 从懵懂,到怀疑自己,到被所有人唾弃,到强迫自己做不喜欢的事情然后失败,再到重生是一种莫大的勇气。坚定自己的信仰去追求一切事物是永远的美丽。
0 有用 dong2j 2019-10-05 23:45:41
hey eddy, as gay as ever.
0 有用 酸 2019-06-11 23:27:58
成长史与家族史。中间有闪光的段落,但总体还是趋于平淡了(也可能是比较短的缘故),结尾还被哽了一下。而且怎么说,读完只感觉通篇就单是怨气比较重而已……当然在那样的环境下成长,向当时的他要求更多或许也并不合理。作者92年生人,路还长着呢。
0 有用 jerrynemo 2021-12-23 00:28:41
感同身受,好希望改成电影,但是这么多大幅的心理描写也挺难影像化的。