About the book
Struggle and Metamorphosis of a Woman, by Édouard Louis, a social fresco in which the author, through the fate of his family, investigates the heroic transformation of women in a world dominated by men.
After recounting his painful childhood as a homosexual child in Ending Eddy Bellegueule, and shortly after the publication of Who Killed My Father, an introspective exercise about his stormy father-son relationship fractured by shame, misery and homophobia, Édouard Louis takes a further step in his ambitious autobiographical project with a committed and moving book about his mother, a victim of male supremacy and patriarchy. An uneducated woman, kept at home by early motherhood, nullified by domestic tasks and subjected to the relentless yoke of men, who knew how to overcome this scandalous destruction and “at the age of forty-five she rebelled, fled and, little by little, built her freedom.”
Having become one of the leading figures of the French radical left, Édouard Louis uses monologue as a powerful guiding thread to create a sincere text that has brought him and his mother closer together and renewed the dialogue after decades of disagreements. A social fresco in which the author, through the fate of his family, explores the heroic transformation of women in a world dominated by men.
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