Anleitung ein anderer zu werden

What does it cost to radically reinvent one's own life? In his mid-twenties, he has already lived several lives: a childhood in poverty, the shame of his origins, fleeing from the village to the city, and setting off for Paris. He frees himself from the confines of his background, takes on a new name, experiments with himself, and wants to live all lives. New worlds continuously unfold before him. With boundless energy, he reinvents himself, forms friendships, yet questions the radical self-transformation that never fully completes. Édouard Louis has written a significant book about what one leaves behind when one arrives at oneself.