Name
A searing new novel from the author of Love Me Tender
Published on 17. April 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
144 pages
978-1-80081-987-0 (ISBN)
Description
'Brilliantly spiky ... As well as boasting compelling, sharp prose, Name forces readers to question what one's name means - and to who' AnOther Magazine, Best Books of 2025
'Unsettling and beautiful, admirably unabashed' Los Angeles Review of Books
'Debre'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 Toibin
'Annie Ernaux, just edgier. Her prose is gorgeously spare and practical' Irish Independent
Name is Debre'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 Debre's radical project.
'Unsettling and beautiful, admirably unabashed' Los Angeles Review of Books
'Debre'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 Toibin
'Annie Ernaux, just edgier. Her prose is gorgeously spare and practical' Irish Independent
Name is Debre'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 Debre's radical project.
Reviews / Votes
The most compulsive voice I've read in years -- Olivia Laing * Guardian * Constance Debre 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 ... Debre is brilliantly deadpan * Spectator * A spitting, snarling tour de force of fuck-you feminist defiance -- Imogen CrimpMore details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Profile Books Ltd
Product notice
With flaps
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
138 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80081-987-0 (9781800819870)
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Tuskar Rock
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Persons
Constance Debre is the author of Love Me Tender, which won the Prix Litteraire des Inrockuptibles in 2020 and Playboy, which won the Prix de la Coupole in 2018. Her novella Offences, based on her work as a defence attorney, is forthcoming from Tuskar Rock.
Lauren Elkin is the award-winning author of several books and an award-winning translator. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, New York Times, Granta, Harper's, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, among others.
Lauren Elkin is the award-winning author of several books and an award-winning translator. Her essays on art, literature, and culture have appeared in the London Review of Books, New York Times, Granta, Harper's, Le Monde, Les Inrockuptibles, and Frieze, among others.