Jak se stát jiným – Louis Édouard (2023)

Can a person constantly change without losing themselves? He is not yet thirty, yet he has already lived several lives. He experienced childhood in extreme poverty, shame for his origins, and for his sexual orientation. He escaped from the village to the city, where as a teenager in high school, he tries to distance himself as much as possible from his roots. He longs to find a new identity later at universities in Amiens and Paris. As a writer, he experiences unprecedented success, enjoys media attention, travels constantly, and tells stories about his life. The attention and recognition are initially addictive, after all, this is exactly what he dreamed of. But gradually, fatigue and disgust with his own life set in; he would prefer to escape from it all again and continue the endless transformation of himself. This deeply personal and touching novel is the largest work of the literary star since the release of "Finishing with Eddy B." Critics and readers have praised it as a remarkable return of an author who has something to say and does not spare himself.