French writer Édouard Louis: ‘Family is a rotten structure. It produces its own violence’
- Posted on January 14, 2026
- By Financial Times
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French writer Édouard Louis: ‘Family is a rotten structure. It produces its own violence’
The gay author shocked France with stories of working-class poverty and homophobia. He talks to Simon Kuper about the misogyny his mother endured and why escape is his defining theme
