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Who Killed My Father
Who Killed My Father rips into France's long neglect of the working class and its overt contempt for the poor, accusing the complacent French politicians-- at the minimum--of negligent homicide. The author goes to visit the ugly gray town of his childhood to see his dying father, barely fifty years old, who can hardly walk or breathe: "You belong to the category of humans whom politics consigns to an early death." It's as simple as that. Hand in hand with searing, specific denunciations are tender passages of a love between father and son, damaged early on by shame, poverty, and homophobia. Yet tenderness reconciles them, even as the state is killing off his father. Louis goes after the French system with bare knuckles but turns to his long-alienated father with open arms: this passionate combination makes Who Killed My Father a heartbreaking book.
Book Details
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: May 2nd, 2023
- Pages: 96
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.05in - 4.53in - 0.29in - 0.20lb
- EAN: 9780811235044
- Categories: • Literary Figures• Poverty & Homelessness• Disease & Health Issues
About the Author
Louis, Edouard: - Born Eddy Bellegueule in Hallencourt, France, in 1992, E´DOUARD LOUIS is a novelist and the editor of a scholarly work on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu.
Praise for this book
Canny, brilliant: a devastating emotional force.--Garth Greenwell "The New Yorker"
The homecoming recounted in this book, linking the intimate with the political, does not blunt Louis's message, but sharpens it to a fine point. Between his virtuously bourgeois-bohème reader and his father, he chooses his father. This is not politics as love, but love as politics. A declaration to his father becomes a manifesto.-- "The Baffler"
A brief, poetic telling of the myriad ways societal contempt, homophobia, and poverty can kill a man. Louis serves as both raconteur and son, expressing deep and considered empathy for a man whose absence looms large.-- "NPR"
In Who Killed My Father, [Louis'] fury has been trained and redirected. The new target is the ruling class.--Tara K. Menon "The Nation"