I know it is old-fashioned, he continues, but that is why I like this cafe. It is like a monument to French literature. Everybody has been here, and writers, publishers and politicians still come so it is also part of the present. It is a place where I can meet friends easily and connect with the world.
This was yet another moment of triumph for a young writer who exploded on to the literary scene 10 years ago with The End of Eddy, a novel based on his working-class origins in northern France searing, sometimes brutal autofiction in the vein of Annie Ernaux or Karl Ove Knausgaard.
Louis talks, too, a lot about politics and gives a voice to a younger generation in France who feel disconnected from the traditional polarities of right and left. In the past he has voiced support for the far-left.
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