![]() ![]() ![]() We hope you enjoy joining us on this "Bi (O)cycle" ride. The interview format is the second of its kind in the fact that it's recorded for you to be able to watch or listen to at your leisure. One of the most exciting topics over the last few years was the BIOCYCLE project, which Prof Louis elaborates on during this interview. He is well-known to us all with his previous ECCO Committee positions and his current role as an associate editor for JCC. Prof Louis is the head of the department and a professor of Gastroenterology at University Hospital CHU of Liege, Belgium. It gives me great pleasure to introduce you to Professor Edouard Louis, the bicycle and BIOCYCLE king. We hope that you've been keeping well, have enjoyed the ECCO Congress and are looking forward to our new installment of the editorial officers' interview corner. 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.Welcome to our Spring issue of ECCO News and our first publication of ECCO News for 2022. Compared to Jean Genet by The Paris Review, his work deals with sexuality, class, and violence. The careful, deliberate narrative reads as if Louis were testifying, or building a case for a jury in real time."Ībout the Author Édouard Louis is the author of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence as well as the nonfiction book Who Killed My Father. The tenth edition of the ITA Festival Brandhaarden. gives voice to the way the cruel, crude hegemony of masculinity has essentially destroyed his father's life. He is considered one of the most celebrated writers of his generation. It was a few days after the attacks on the World Trade Center and that’s why I remember the exact date it happened. ![]() Martha Anne Toll, NPR "Literary phenomenon Édouard Louis. douard Louis: The Family is a Curse A Moment of Violence and Vengeance at the Dinner Table By Edouard Louis AugI saw my big brother try to kill my father one September evening in 2001. Arjun Neil Alim, Evening Standard "A brief, poetic telling of the myriad ways societal contempt, homophobia, and poverty can kill a man. Kevin O'Rourke, Los Angeles Review of Books "Édouard Louis the vanguard of France's new generation of political writers. The Irish Times " Who Killed My Father is a political document that uses the force of memoir-incisive, confessional personal details-to bolster its argument that Louis's father's life (and by extension, his family) was ruined by politics. To understand what is happening now in France, or indeed, all over Europe, this is an essential text." Garth Greenwell, The New Yorker Praise for Who Killed My Father " a global literary sensation. At once an act of solidarity and an act of vengeance." Freighted with an ambivalence that animates the book and gives it a devastating emotional force. Jennifer Senior, The New York Times "Brilliant. It is also a mesmerizing story about difference and adolescence, one that is far more realistic than most." ![]() Jonny Diamond, Lit Hub (most anticipated) Praise for The End of Eddy "Excellent. Translated by his friend and novelist Tash Aw, this is not to be missed." Annie Bostrom, Booklist "While the narrative is pulled from his life, the personal is always political-and Louis tracks his mother's violence and pain as intertwined with capitalism, patriarchy, and systems beyond our control. This one-sitting read, slim and complete, dazzles with memories sieved to their finest grains and affirms the extraordinary power of writing." David Keymer, Library Journal (starred) "Ravishing. "The writing is intensely lyrical but the subject rubs up against the political. Sharp, short, and fine as a needle, it is a necessary addition to the work of Édouard Louis, "one of France's most widely read and internationally successful novelists" ( The New York Times Magazine). It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives-and with the possibility of escape. This is the searing and sympathetic story of one woman's liberation: of mothers and sons, of history and heartbreak, of politics and power. I left your father." Suddenly, she was free. douard Louis, born Eddy Bellegueule, grew up in Hallencourt (Somme) before entering theater class at the Lyce Madeleine Michelis in Amiens. In all his courses, even those of the doctoral school whilst he was only in his second year of his. douard Louis is a French writer born October 30, 1992. Late one night, Édouard Louis got a call from his forty-five-year-old mother: "I did it. In 2010, after their first meeting, Edouard Louis enrolled in Didier Eribon’s classes in Amiens. About the Book Translation of: Combats et mâetamorphoses d'une femme.Ī Woman's Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the author's mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence. ![]()
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