![]() ![]() There’s a social context that make the story repeats itself: early pregnancies, early marriages, dropping out of school, poor education, poor jobs. Women bear with them but wouldn’t want them differently. They spend time at the pub, they drink, they fight. In a word, and to match their language, you don’t behave like a pussy. Being a man means playing and watching football, joking around with buddies, being tough, not going to the doctor unless you’re on death bed. They don’t look into their feminine side. It’s an environment where men and women have defined roles, where being a man means being tough. ![]() He describes his life in his village in a poor neighborhood. He says that from early childhood he knew he was different and that he’s always been pegged as gay. When his father loses his job due to backaches problems, his mother starts working as a home help. At the beginning, his father works in a factory and his mother stays at home to raise the children. He has a younger brother and a younger sister. His two older siblings come from his mother’s first marriage. It’s a violent scene that throws the reader head first into the dark swimming-pool of his childhood memories. And indeed, the first chapter is about with Eddy being bullied in collège (school you go to between 11 and 15) by two boys who call him a faggot. The décor is there, you know you’re in for a lot of miserable anecdotes. ![]() The End of Eddy opens with a punchy sentence: I have no happy memories of my childhood. And, very important, he’s gay, was gay as Eddy, is gay as Edouard. He is now Edouard Louis, PhD in sociology. He used to be Eddy Bellegueule, child of a poor working-class family in Picardie. Edouard Louis changed his name from Eddy Bellegueule to Edouard Louis when he changed of social class. (2014) Original French title: En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule.Įdouard Louis was born in 1992, he wrote The End of Eddy when he was 22. ![]()
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