Parents and Sons.

Along with the philosopher Didier Eribon and the sociologist Geoffroy de Lagasnerie, Louis has established himself as part of a new group of bold and uncompromising voices on the French left; the three men, together and separately, write and speak often and urgently about the needs of France's working class. B&A BOOKS the ARTS WHEN HIS DEBUT NOVEL CAUSED A SENsation in France, Edouard Louis was just 21. Yet all this pales in comparison to the way Louis treats his mother after he starts to attend high school and enters the universe of what she calls "les bourgeois.'" As with his father, so too with his mother: Once Louis moves away from home to attend a performing-arts high school in Amiens, the schism between them deepens. Yet for all the similarity, Stuart and Louis see the world differently, and this is how Louis sets himself off from his peers. [Extracted from the article]