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208 pages, Paperback
First published January 7, 2016
I am hidden on the other side of the door, I listen, and she says that several hours after what the copy of the report I keep twice-folded in my drawer calls the attempted homicide, and which I call the same thing for lack of a better word, since no other term is more appropriate for what happened, which means I always have the anxious nagging feeling that my story, whether told by me or whomever else, begins with a falsehood, I left my apartment and went downstairs.
“When I started writing History of Violence, I realized that there seemed to be almost no literature, almost no film, no speeches on male-rape. And when I wrote about my own rape, I was faced with this difficulty in saying it, putting it into words. Since the rape, it has felt like I’ve faced an unimaginable battering � first in going to the police, being in front of officers who don’t understand you. Then when you say it publicly, there are people who don’t believe you, who mock you. Or there are people who believe it but say it’s your own fault. Before this, I had heard a lot of women talking about the fact they weren’t believed. And when History of Violence was published, I realized the full extent of what those women had gone through.�
--Edouard Louis in an interview