Podcasts Culture LitHouse podcast Edouard Louis and Geoffroy de Lagasnerie about bodies, violence and power

Edouard Louis and Geoffroy de Lagasnerie about bodies, violence and power

Published: June 7, 2019, 7 a.m.

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How can we understand the movement Gilets Jaunes \\u2013 the Yellow vests? What does this police violence against blacks say about the official French view of black people?

\\xc9douard Louis\\u2019s latest novel, Qui a tu\\xe9 mon p\\xe8re, or Who Killed My Father, has recently been published in Norwegian and English translations. Here, Louis writes about his father\\u2019s broken body. He recognizes the same broken, French working class body in the Yellow vests movement that have dominated international news since last fall.

Geoffroy de Lagasnerie is a French academic and intellectual, whose 2018 publication Judge and punish came after he for several years had followed a number of trials.

Louis and de Lagasnerie met artistic director at the House of Literature, Andreas Liebe Delsett, for a conversation about bodies, violence and power. The conversation took place at the House of Literature on May 27, 2019.

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