Tag Archives: History of Violence (Louis)

ÉDOUARD LOUIS, STAGED

In conjunction with the theatrical production of two plays based on his books, Édouard Louis will give a talk—moderated by the New Yorker theater critic Alexandra Schwartz—at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Co-presented by BAM and St. Ann’s Warehouse, performances of Thomas Ostermeier, Florian Borchmeyer, and Louis’ adaptation of HISTORY OF VIOLENCE begin at St. Ann’s on November 13. THE END OF EDDY—adapted by Pamela Carter—starts at BAM the following night.

ÉDOUARD LOUIS IN CONVERSATION

Monday, November 11, at 7 pm.

BAM Fisher, Fishman Space

321 Ashland Place, Brooklyn.

From top: Laurenz Laufenberg (left) and Renato Schuch in History of Violence; Laufenberg, Schuch, and Alina Stiegler; Laufenberg and Schuch; Oseloka Obi (left) and James Russell-Morley in The End of Eddy; Russell-Morley and Obi; Stiegler and Laufenberg; Laufenberg (on ground). History of Violence photographs by Arno Declair; The End of Eddy photographs by Sarah Walker. Images courtesy and © the producers, the performers, and the photographers.

ÉDOUARD LOUIS IN LOS ANGELES

“It’s strange, but in my childhood, nobody read but we knew that literature was not interested in us…

“There is today on a global scale, with Knausgaard, Ta-Nehisi Coates or Svetlana Alexievitch, a very important movement around the question of literature and truth. How can one use the tools of literature to tell the truth, to say the lived experience?” — Édouard Louis

Louis will be in Los Angeles this week, reading from and discussing (with Steven Reigns) his new nonfiction novel HISTORY OF VIOLENCE.

 

ÉDOUARD LOUIS—HISTORY OF VIOLENCE

Wednesday, October 10, at 7:30

Taper Auditorium, Central Library, 630 West 5th Street, downtown Los Angeles.

See Édouard Louis and Zadie Smith

and Abdellah Taïa and Édouard Louis

Image credit above: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Below: Édouard Louis in 2016. Photograph by Frédéric Stucin.