![]() ![]() Eddy Bellegueule eventually became aware of his sexual attraction to men, and his disgust with heterosexual relationships, but tried to get back to the norm. The narrator's experiences depict a world where poverty and alcohol accompany social reproduction that leads women to become cashiers after dropping out of school and men to move from school to the factory. The End of Eddy narrates Eddy Bellegueule's ("original patronymic" of the author) childhood and adolescence in a Picardy village, the rejection he undergoes because of his effeminate ways from the people of the village and his own family, the violence and humiliations he endure in an environment where we don't like "faggots". ![]() "For the first time my pronounced name does not name " In the epigraph is a quote from Marguerite Duras: Dedicated to Didier Eribon, whose author appreciated the Returning to Reims, this first novel by Édouard Louis is in two parts, named "Book I" and "Book II" and entitled "Picardie (late 1990s - early 2000s)" and "L'échec et la fuite", followed by an epilogue. ![]()
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