Name by Lauren Elkin - ISBN: 9781635902389
Paperback
Radical freedom demands disowning identity, inheritance, and the past.

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  • Paperback

    144 pages

  • Release Date

    15 April 2025

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Summary

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 famil…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781635902389
ISBN-10:163590238X
Author:Lauren Elkin, Constance Debré
Publisher:Semiotext (E)
Imprint:Semiotext
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:144
Release Date:15 April 2025
Weight:170g
Dimensions:203mm x 137mm x 10mm
Series:Semiotext(e) / Native Agents
What They're Saying

Critics Review

“Unafraid of hypocrisy, Debré would rather rile up than please; she prefers starting a fire to putting one out. Name indeed burns, threatening to destroy everything in its wake. But what comes after destruction is the exhilarating chance to start completely over.”—Danielle Chelosky, Los Angeles Review of Books

About The Author

Lauren Elkin

Constance Debré left her career as a lawyer to become a writer. She is the author of the trilogy of novels Playboy, Love Me Tender, and What’s in a Name, all published in English by Semiotext(e). Her other novels include Un peu là, beaucoup ailleurs (winner of the 2005 Prix Contrepoint), L’Offense, and Manuel pratique de l’idéal Abécédaire de survie.

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