Na vida e na escrita: o universo autobiográfico de Édouard Louis em O fim de Eddy e na História da violência

Abstract

This work is part of the field of investigation concerning Self-writing, in which the author-narrator-character writes about his own life. Thus, we propose to think about the autobiographies – episodic, visceral and shocking – of Édouard Louis, O Fim de Eddy and História da violência, from Philippe Lejeune's compilation of works, O Pacto autobiográfico: de Rousseau à internet, analyzing whether the writings of the “I” of the narrator-character correspond to the categories studied by Philippe Lejeune. Apart from that, inherent in the works of Édouard Louis, the phenomena of violence and prejudice that permeate both books will be highlighted, having in perspective the character of his politically revolutionary writing, socially transgressive and engaged in movements for the rights of minorities. From this point of view, we will understand, from Édouardian literature, that there are bodies that are less loved and hardly accepted than others, as Judith Butler tells us. Thus, they are more likely to suffer violence, just like the effeminate gay male body. In the case of Édouard Louis, we will see how heteronormativity, impregnated in his social and family environment, caused irreparable damage to his life. As a result, from his own human material, Louis puts real situations in his writings, which clash not only with the tradition of his family and his small rural village, but with all the reception structure of the French State and of the world towards minorities.