This social hierarchy, the dominated and the dominant, is in itself a violence. People say to me, 'Ah, but you managed to escape,' but to me that doesn't show it's possible – quite the opposite. Now I'm out, I can see how difficult it is to escape. I can see the extraordinary violence of it.


The Guardian French literary boy wonder Édouard Louis on saving the working class from Marine Le Pen

Édouard Louis Quotes

This social hierarchy, the dominated and the dominant, is in itself a violence. People say to me, 'Ah, but you managed to escape,' but to me that...

This social hierarchy, the dominated and the dominant, is in itself a violence. People say to me, 'Ah, but you managed to escape,' but to me that...

This social hierarchy, the dominated and the dominant, is in itself a violence. People say to me, 'Ah, but you managed to escape,' but to me that...

This social hierarchy, the dominated and the dominant, is in itself a violence. People say to me, 'Ah, but you managed to escape,' but to me that...