Édouard Louis: 'I want to be a writer of violence. The more you talk about it, the more you can undo it'Édouard Louis: 'I want to be a writer of violence. Louis says the events of the novel are true: the attack, the police investigation, his state in the days that followed. The guy who attacks me in History of Violence is someone who is gay and grew up in a homophobic country: France. “I think the more you talk about violence, the more you can undo violence ...

Source: The Guardian June 09, 2018 09:56 UTC