Change by Édouard Louis review – the revenge of Eddy | Fiction in translation
It has been said that the French wunderkind Édouard Louis suffers for his lack of humour. But for such a famously repetitious writer to call a book Change is at least a bit funny. Louis’s writing up to this point has been monomaniacal in its focus on the psychological and physical violence inflicted on the working classes by the structures of neoliberalism. Change is no different. This latest instalment further demarcates him as exactly what he is: one of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers…