Écrire l’intime : un acte politique ?

Édouard Louis is featured in a recent episode of the podcast Sans préjuger, produced by France Culture, in which he reflects on autobiographical writing as a political act. In conversation with Nathan Devers, he discusses violence, survival, and the power of intimate narratives to challenge social and literary norms.

“I wanted to write to take revenge on a childhood that I hated. And writing, publishing a book, was a way for me to exist in spite of a childhood in which I felt suffocated, erased, cast aside.”

Listen to the full episode here.