L’anomalie de soi chez Édouard Louis
The Anomaly of Self in Édouard Louis

Summary/Abstract: Édouard Louis has published five novels since 2014, somewherebetween autofiction and autosociobiography. In this work, the writerrecounts his process of construction as a young gay intellectual.To achieve this, he has to confront the systems of norms heencounters as he traverses different social milieus: the povertyof his family in the countryside, the bourgeoisie of his friends in theprovinces, the power of his lovers in Paris. Against this backdrop,this article aims to explore the forms of the sense of abnormalityfelt by É. Louis during these experiences. We'll see how renewedconfrontation with a norm foreign to himself (a cleaved habitus) ledthe author to develop an original approach to literature: through anaesthetic of confrontation, the author pursues a political objective,namely to invite the reader to join a new form of class struggle.

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