#constance debre

[prominentman]

Interview Magazine, April 9 2024, Constance Debre on her first person narration in “Playboy”

[bookquotesforthesoul]

Each day I save myself. Then I do it all over again the next day.

Constance Debré, Love Me Tender

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[lescarrefours]

An Excerpt from "Love Me Tender"

I don’t see why love between mothers and sons should not be exactly like other loves. Why we cannot cease to love. Why we cannot fall apart. I don’t see why we cannot lose care, once and for all— about love— a faux kind of love, of all forms of love, even this one, why we must absolutely love each other, in families and elsewhere, when we tell stories with no end to ourselves or to each other. I wonder who invented it, when it happened, if it’s a kind of fad, a neurosis, a delirium, which are economic interests, political springs. I wonder what they’re hiding from us, what we want with this grand story of love. I look at others and I only see lies and madness. When did we stop with love? Why couldn’t we? I must know. I’m asking myself this question.

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Exercise 24: An English translation of a snippet from Constance Debré's Love Me Tender, translated from the original French.

[kammartinez]

Absolute Sovereignty: On Constance Debré’s “Love Me Tender”

Gracie Hadland reviews Constance Debré’s “Love Me Tender.”...

[kamreadsandrecs]

Because We Care | Los Angeles Review of Books

Danielle Chelosky reviews Constance Debré’s “Name,” translated by Lauren Elkin.

[kammartinez]

Because We Care | Los Angeles Review of Books

Danielle Chelosky reviews Constance Debré’s “Name,” translated by Lauren Elkin.

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