Description History of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis\'s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath.
Lorin Stein is a critic, translator, and former editor of The Paris Review..
Louis was born Eddy Bellegeule in the working-class village of Hallencourt in northern France, and he attended the École Normale Supérieure and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
Compared to Jean Genet by The Paris Review, his work deals with sexuality, class, and violence.
About the AuthorÉdouard Louis is the author of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence, and the editor of a scholarly work on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu.
It represents a great step forward for a young writer whose acuity, skill, and depth are unmatched by any novelist of his generation, in French or English.
It records not only the casual racism and homophobia of French society but also their subtle effects on lovers, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives.
Moving seamlessly and hypnotically between past and present, between Louis\'s voice and the voice of an imagined narrator, History of Violence has the exactness of a police report and the searching, unflinching curiosity of memoir at its best.
A bestseller in France, History of Violence is a short nonfiction novel in the tradition of Truman Capote\'s In Cold Blood, but with the victim as its subject.
This act of Violence left Louis shattered; its aftermath made him a stranger to himself and sent him back to the village, the family, and the past he had sworn to leave behind.
On Christmas Eve 2012, in Paris, the novelist douard Louis was raped and almost murdered by a man he had just met.
Description History of Violence is international bestselling French author Edouard Louis\'s autobiographical novel about surviving a shocking sexual assault and coping with the post-traumatic stress disorder of its aftermath
