Collapse by Louis, Édouard
Collapse by Louis, Édouard

Collapse

From "one of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation" (The Guardian),...
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Author: Édouard Louis
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Collapse by Louis, Édouard

Collapse

$31.20
Collapse by Louis, Édouard

Collapse

$31.20
Author: Édouard Louis
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

From "one of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation" (The Guardian), an unflinching account of Édouard Louis's brother's life and death.

Édouard's brother spent much of his life dreaming. He lived in a poor, working-class world, where he imagined that he would become one of the finest butchers in France, that he would travel, that he would make his fortune, that he would restore cathedrals, and that his father, who had disappeared, would return and love him.

But there was no way to escape, no one who could show him how, and everything about him--his drinking, his violence, his behavior with women and with others--condemned him.

At thirty-eight, after years of failure and depression, he was found dead on the floor of his small studio apartment. This book is the story of his collapse.

Édouard Louis traces the life of a man who was in many ways deplorable: violent, misogynistic, homophobic, brutal. But where might understanding begin, and how far can it extend? In Collapse, Louis pursues every angle for answers--newly consulting writers and psychoanalysts and questioning his siblings, his mother, his brother's partners, and himself. From an outpouring of memory and pain comes a radical gesture of dignity and forgiveness.

Author: Édouard Louis
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 06/02/2026
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.51h x 5.66w x 0.84d
ISBN: 9780374616830


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2026
Publishers Weekly 04/27/2026

About the Author
Édouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy, History of Violence, Who Killed My Father, A Woman's Battles and Transformations, Change, and Monique Escapes, and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Freeman's. His books have been translated into thirty languages and have made him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide. He lives in Paris.
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