{"product_id":"name-constance-debre","title":"Name – Constance Debré","description":"\u003cp\u003eA searing disavowal of identity and inheritance, which completes Constance Debré’s acclaimed trilogy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eName\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNewly 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, \u003cem\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eLove Me Tender\u003c\/em\u003e 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.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: Semiotext(e)\u003cbr\u003e\nPublished: 2025\u003cbr\u003e\nLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 144\u003cbr\u003e\nDimensions: 5 x 8 inches\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47745526038715,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/1778\/1179\/files\/dyrm-nyc_website_name_constance-debre.jpg?v=1793219043","url":"https:\/\/nyc.doyoureadme.de\/products\/name-constance-debre","provider":"do you read me?!  nyc","version":"1.0","type":"link"}