Story of violence

R$ 66,90

Sinopse

The radical, urgent new novel from the author of The End of Eddy – a personal and powerful story of violenceI met Reda on Christmas Eve 2012, at around four in the morning. He approached me in the street, and finally I invited him up to my apartment. He told me the story of his childhood and how his father had come to France, having fled Algeria. We spent the rest of the night together, talking, laughing. At around 6 o'clock, he pulled out a gun and said he was going to kill me. He insulted me, strangled and raped me. The next day, the medical and legal proceedings began.History of Violence retraces the story of that night, and looks at immigration, class, racism, desire and the effects of trauma in an attempt to understand a history of violence, its origins, its reasons and its causes.

Participantes

Autor: Edouard Louis

Tradutor: Lorin Stein

Autor

EDOUARD LOUIS

Édouard Louis nasceu na França, em 1992. Em seus relatos, a homossexualidade e as injustiças de classe são retratadas através de uma escrita honesta e afiada, marcada por altas doses de crítica social e política.Criado num mundo de desigualdade, preconceito e conformismo, o autor francês reinventou sua vida com a literatura. Edouard Louis escreve sobre si para falar de todos nós, na convicção de que o desejo de mudança é o primeiro passo de uma vida mais justa.