Name
A searing new novel from the author of Love Me Tender
Constance Debré author Lauren Elkin translator
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
Publishing:17th Apr '25
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 17th April, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
France's most incendiary star continues her ascent with an excavation of her famous family's legacy
'Debré's voice is Camusian, comic, stark, relentless and totally hypnotic' Rachel Kushner 'Written with edge and urgency in a voice that is both vulnerable and in full command' Colm Tóibín 'Annie Ernaux, just edgier. Her prose is gorgeously spare and practical' Irish Independent Name is Debré's most intense novel yet, a fresh feat of sharp, spare, yet explosive prose. Set partly in the narrator's childhood, it explores ideas about origins and reshapes relationships to our various inheritances: name, family, class, habits. As the novel unravels, freedom is revealed as a redefining of these relationships on one's own terms. Brilliant and unflinching, Name affirms and extends Debré's radical project.
The most compulsive voice I've read in years -- Olivia Laing * Guardian *
Constance Debré is radical in shucking off not only the trappings of matrimony but also of class * Financial Times *
Bold and brash and at the same time quietly controlled ... Debré is brilliantly deadpan * Spectator *
A spitting, snarling tour de force of fuck-you feminist defiance -- Imogen Crimp
ISBN: 9781800819870
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
144 pages
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