BETWEEN MALE AND FEMALE, THE TRANSCRIPTION OF VIOLENCE IN ÉDOUARD LOUIS’S WORK

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the fictional elaboration of violence against homossexuality present in The end of Eddy and History of violence, by Édouard Louis, considering two aspects. First, there is an investigation on the possibility of the ambivalence of meanings given to the nomination of The end of Eddy’s narrator being built as the basis of the verbal and physical abuse that he went through during childhood. Second, from the hybrid enunciation that takes place between the narrator and his sister, Clara, in History of violence, the analysis focus on the move of the transcription into literary text of the experiences of violences lived in both works as the derivation of a writing turn that retakes, through the female voice, the violent actions of the male behavior. Maurice Blanchot, Gilles Deleuze, Roland Barthes and Hélène Cixous’s thoughts constitute the theoretical background of this research.