This article considers Édouard Louis’s extensive literary œuvre from En finir avec Eddy Bellegueule (2014) to his latest novel, Monique s’évade (2024), in conjunction with his interactions in the public sphere. It first explores how the space of the novel becomes as much a space of exploration of the various processes of domination that shaped his and his family’s lives as it is a space of self-reinvention. In particular, it is Louis’s transformation practice that guides this article. Indeed, this article looks at the ways in which Louis engages in processes of branding, be it the act of making a product or the act of marking something or someone, in turn building one coherent cultural figure commited to social justice and making audible and visible vulnerable lived experiences. Not only an écrivain engagé, Louis has also become a theatre performer and a political activist who deploys and controls his narrative in literature and beyond.

Loïc Bourdeau

Charly Verstraet

Nottingham French Studies

Nottingham French Studies is an externally-refereed academic journal which, from Volume 43, 2004, appears three times annually, with at least one special and one general issue each year. Its Editorial Board is drawn from members of the Department of French and Francophone Studies of the University of Nottingham, with the support of an International Advisory Board.

Nottingham French Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal that has been published three times a year since Volume 43 in 2004, featuring at least one special issue and one general issue each year. The Editorial Board is composed of members from the Department of French and Francophone Studies at the University of Nottingham, with support from an International Advisory Board.

《Nottingham French Studies》是一本经过外部审稿的学术期刊，自2004年第43卷起，每年出版三期，其中至少包含一期特刊和一期普通期刊。期刊的编辑委员会由诺丁汉大学法语及法语国家研究系的成员组成，并得到国际顾问委员会的支持。

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Becoming Édouard Louis and the Transmedial Social Novel

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