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Published by Semiotext (E), 2025
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Paperback. Condition: Good. A searing disavowal of identity and inheritance, which completes Constace Debré's acclaimed trilogy. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of the elimination of inheritance, the requirement that ancestors sustain their descendants, I am for the elimination of parental authority, I am for the abolition of marriage, I am in favor of children getting some distance from their parents at as young an age as possible, I am for the abolition of filiation, and for the abolition of the family name, I am against guardianship, minority, I am against patrimony, I am against having a domicile, a nationality . I am for eliminating the family, I am in favor of eliminating childhood as well, if we can. Name, the third novel in Constance Debré's acclaimed trilogy, is at once a manifesto, an ecstatic poem, and a political pamphlet. By rejecting the notion of given identity, her narrator approaches the heart of the radical emptiness that the earlier books were pursuing. Newly single, and having recently come out as a lesbian, the narrator of Debré's first two novels embarked on a monastic regime of exercise, sex, and writing. Using the facts of her own life as impersonal "material" for literature, Playboy and Love Me Tender epitomized what Debré (after Thomas Bernhard) has called "antiautobiography." They introduced French and American readers to her fiercely spare prose, distilled from influences as disparate as Saint Augustine, Albert Camus, and Guillaume Dustan. "Minimalist and at times even desolate," wrote the New York Review of Books, these works defied "the expectations of personal growth that animate much feminist literature." Name is Debré's most intense novel yet. Set partly in the narrator's childhood, it rejects Proustian notions of "regaining" the past. Instead, its narrator seeks a state of profound disownment: "We have to get rid of the idea of origins, once and for all, I'm not holding onto the corpses. . Being free has nothing to do with that clutter, with having suffered or not, being free is the void." To achieve true freedom, she dares to enter this "void"--that is, dares to accept the pain, loss, and violence of life. Brilliant and searing, Name affirms and extends Debré's radical project.…

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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A searing disavowal of identity and inheritance, which completes Constace Debré's acclaimed trilogy. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of the elimination of inheritance, the requirement that ancestors sustain their descendants, I am for the elimination of parental authority, I am for the abolition of marriage, I am in favor of children getting some distance from their parents at as young an age as possible, I am for the abolition of filiation, and for the abolition of the family name, I am against guardianship, minority, I am against patrimony, I am against having a domicile, a nationality . I am for eliminating the family, I am in favor of eliminating childhood as well, if we can. Name, the third novel in Constance Debré's acclaimed trilogy, is at once a manifesto, an ecstatic poem, and a political pamphlet. By rejecting the notion of given identity, her narrator approaches the heart of the radical emptiness that the earlier books were pursuing. Newly single, and having recently come out as a lesbian, the narrator of Debré's first two novels embarked on a monastic regime of exercise, sex, and writing. Using the facts of her own life as impersonal "material" for literature, Playboy and Love Me Tender epitomized what Debré (after Thomas Bernhard) has called "antiautobiography." They introduced French and American readers to her fiercely spare prose, distilled from influences as disparate as Saint Augustine, Albert Camus, and Guillaume Dustan. "Minimalist and at times even desolate," wrote the New York Review of Books, these works defied "the expectations of personal growth that animate much feminist literature." Name is Debré's most intense novel yet. Set partly in the narrator's childhood, it rejects Proustian notions of "regaining" the past. Instead, its narrator seeks a state of profound disownment: "We have to get rid of the idea of origins, once and for all, I'm not holding onto the corpses. . Being free has nothing to do with that clutter, with having suffered or not, being free is the void." To achieve true freedom, she dares to enter this "void"--that is, dares to accept the pain, loss, and violence of life. Brilliant and searing, Name affirms and extends Debré's radical project.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. A searing disavowal of identity and inheritance, which completes Constace Debré's acclaimed trilogy. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of the elimination of inheritance, the requirement that ancestors sustain their descendants, I am for the elimination of parental authority, I am for the abolition of marriage, I am in favor of children getting some distance from their parents at as young an age as possible, I am for the abolition of filiation, and for the abolition of the family name, I am against guardianship, minority, I am against patrimony, I am against having a domicile, a nationality . I am for eliminating the family, I am in favor of eliminating childhood as well, if we can. Name, the third novel in Constance Debré's acclaimed trilogy, is at once a manifesto, an ecstatic poem, and a political pamphlet. By rejecting the notion of given identity, her narrator approaches the heart of the radical emptiness that the earlier books were pursuing. Newly single, and having recently come out as a lesbian, the narrator of Debré's first two novels embarked on a monastic regime of exercise, sex, and writing. Using the facts of her own life as impersonal "material" for literature, Playboy and Love Me Tender epitomized what Debré (after Thomas Bernhard) has called "antiautobiography." They introduced French and American readers to her fiercely spare prose, distilled from influences as disparate as Saint Augustine, Albert Camus, and Guillaume Dustan. "Minimalist and at times even desolate," wrote the New York Review of Books, these works defied "the expectations of personal growth that animate much feminist literature." Name is Debré's most intense novel yet. Set partly in the narrator's childhood, it rejects Proustian notions of "regaining" the past. Instead, its narrator seeks a state of profound disownment: "We have to get rid of the idea of origins, once and for all, I'm not holding onto the corpses. . Being free has nothing to do with that clutter, with having suffered or not, being free is the void." To achieve true freedom, she dares to enter this "void"--that is, dares to accept the pain, loss, and violence of life. Brilliant and searing, Name affirms and extends Debré's radical project.…

Language: English
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. A searing disavowal of identity and inheritance, which completes Constace Debré's acclaimed trilogy. I have a political agenda. I am in favor of the elimination of inheritance, the requirement that ancestors sustain their descendants, I am for the elimination of parental authority, I am for the abolition of marriage, I am in favor of children getting some distance from their parents at as young an age as possible, I am for the abolition of filiation, and for the abolition of the family name, I am against guardianship, minority, I am against patrimony, I am against having a domicile, a nationality . I am for eliminating the family, I am in favor of eliminating childhood as well, if we can. Name, the third novel in Constance Debré's acclaimed trilogy, is at once a manifesto, an ecstatic poem, and a political pamphlet. By rejecting the notion of given identity, her narrator approaches the heart of the radical emptiness that the earlier books were pursuing. Newly single, and having recently come out as a lesbian, the narrator of Debré's first two novels embarked on a monastic regime of exercise, sex, and writing. Using the facts of her own life as impersonal "material" for literature, Playboy and Love Me Tender epitomized what Debré (after Thomas Bernhard) has called "antiautobiography." They introduced French and American readers to her fiercely spare prose, distilled from influences as disparate as Saint Augustine, Albert Camus, and Guillaume Dustan. "Minimalist and at times even desolate," wrote the New York Review of Books, these works defied "the expectations of personal growth that animate much feminist literature." Name is Debré's most intense novel yet. Set partly in the narrator's childhood, it rejects Proustian notions of "regaining" the past. Instead, its narrator seeks a state of profound disownment: "We have to get rid of the idea of origins, once and for all, I'm not holding onto the corpses. . Being free has nothing to do with that clutter, with having suffered or not, being free is the void." To achieve true freedom, she dares to enter this "void"--that is, dares to accept the pain, loss, and violence of life. Brilliant and searing, Name affirms and extends Debré's radical project.…

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Published by Tuskar Rock, 2023
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Published by Tuskar Rock, 2023
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Published by Semiotext(e), 2022
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Language: English
Published by Semiotext (E), 2024
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Paperback. Condition: Good. The prequel to Love Me Tender, narrating Debré's transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian and writer. I see all her beauty, I see the beauty of women. I see my own body, new. I tell myself there are so many things that are possible. Published in France in 2018, Playboy is the first volume of Constance Debré's renowned debut trilogy that describes her decision, at age forty-three, to abandon her marriage, her legal career, and her bourgeois Parisian life to become a lesbian and a writer. The novel unfolds in a series of short, sharp vignettes. The narrator's descriptions of her first female lovers--a married woman fifteen years older than her, a model ten years her junior--are punctuated by encounters with her ex-husband, her father, and her son. As Debré recently told Granta: "It was a bit like Saint Augustine and his conversion. In the same week, I had sex with a girl and I had the feeling that I could write. I had this incredible feeling that I could catch things, that life was there to be caught." Looking at the world through fresh eyes, the narrator of Playboy questions everything that once lay beneath the surface of her well-managed life. Laconic, aggressive, and radically truthful, she examines gender and marriage, selfishness and sacrifice, money and family, even the privilege inherent in her downward mobility. Writing her way toward her own liberation, Debré chronicles the process that made her one of the most brilliant, important French writers today.…

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