Collapse

Édouard Louis’ novel L’effondrement has been translated into English as Collapse by author and former fellow Tash Aw. The English edition, published by HARVILL, was released on June 2 and was recently reviewed by Charles Arrowsmith for The Guardian.

“Collapse takes the form of a metaphysical inquest into the brother’s decline. Louis has said that the book was in various drafts a play, a diary and a manifesto – experiments that can all be glimpsed in the final product, which is a self-conscious hodgepodge of forms including witness testimony, a scripted dialogue between the author and his brother’s ghost and key scenes presented as numbered facts.”

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