BOOKS FROM FRANCEForvandlingens metode
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Set in France
Male author
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"The story of my life is a long series of broken friendships. At every stage of my life, of this race with myself, I have had to leave people I have loved in order to go even further. It was not a conscious decision on my part, nor on theirs: I was fighting to transform myself, and they did not have the same obsession..." French author Édouard Louis' autofictional novel The Method of Transformation is a story about moving from the absolute bottom of society to the top. About escaping one's background through success and becoming part of Paris's economic and social elite, about the affairs with older rich men and nobles that this involves, and the at first intoxicating, then nauseating dealings with the elite. It is a novel about transforming everything about oneself in order to reach one's goal, about the victories along the way, but also about the heartbreaking breaks that transformation requires.
