{"id":533142,"date":"2024-03-20T16:33:03","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T16:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/?post_type=app_professional&#038;p=533142"},"modified":"2024-04-20T18:07:39","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T18:07:39","slug":"author-on-tour-constance-debre","status":"publish","type":"app_professional","link":"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/author-on-tour-constance-debre\/","title":{"rendered":"Author on Tour: Constance Debr\u00e9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">About Constance Debr\u00e9<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Constance Debr\u00e9 <\/strong>left her career as a lawyer to become a writer. She is the author of a trilogy of novels: <em>Playboy<\/em> (<em>Play Boy<\/em>, Stock; trans. by Holly James, Semiotext(e), 2024), <em>Love Me Tender<\/em> (<em>Love Me Tender,<\/em> Flammarion; trans. by Holly James, Semiotext(e), 2022), and <em>No Name<\/em> (<em>Nom<\/em>, Flammarion; trans. &amp; release date TBA, Semiotext(e)). In 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/fr\/residents\/constance-debre\/\">she was a resident at Villa Albertine<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semiotexte.com\/playboy\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1613\" height=\"2400\" src=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Constance-Debre-Cover-US-min.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-533158\" style=\"width:300px;height:undefinedpx\" srcset=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Constance-Debre-Cover-US-min.jpeg 1613w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Constance-Debre-Cover-US-min-202x300.jpeg 202w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Constance-Debre-Cover-US-min-688x1024.jpeg 688w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Constance-Debre-Cover-US-min-768x1143.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Constance-Debre-Cover-US-min-1032x1536.jpeg 1032w, https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/Constance-Debre-Cover-US-min-1376x2048.jpeg 1376w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1613px) 100vw, 1613px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<h3>About <em>Playboy<\/em><\/h3>\n<p>(trans. by Holly James, Semiotext(e), 2024)<\/p>\n<p>First published in France in 2018, <em>Playboy<\/em> is the first volume of Constance Debr\u00e9\u2019s renowned autobiographical trilogy that describes her decision, at age forty-three, to abandon her marriage, her legal career, and her bourgeois Parisian life to become a lesbian and a writer.<\/p>\n<p>The novel unfolds in a series of short, sharp vignettes. The narrator\u2019s descriptions of her first female lovers\u2014a married woman fifteen years older than her, a model ten years her junior\u2014are punctuated by encounters with her ex-husband, her father, and her son.<\/p>\n<p>Looking at the world through fresh eyes, the narrator of <em>Playboy<\/em> questions everything that once lay beneath the surface of her well-managed life. Laconic, aggressive, and radically truthful, she examines gender and marriage, selfishness and sacrifice, money and family, even the privilege inherent in her downward mobility.<\/p>\n<p><em>Playboy<\/em>\u00a0will be released in the United States in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.semiotexte.com\/playboy\">Find more information here.<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Program<\/h3>\n<p>Constance Debr\u00e9 will be on tour in the US in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Her public program will include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sunday, Apr 7: conversation with Sasha Frere-Jones @ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.albertine.com\/events\/playboy-an-afternoon-with-constance-debre\/\">Albertine<\/a> (New York, NY) \u2013 event in English;<\/li>\n<li>Tuesday, Apr 9: conversation @ <a href=\"https:\/\/fit.princeton.edu\/events\/plein-de-choses-sont-possibles-une-conversation-avec-constance-debr%C3%A9\">Princeton Universit<\/a>y (Princeton, NJ) \u2013 event in French;<\/li>\n<li>Wednesday, Apr 17: conversation @ <a href=\"https:\/\/french.berkeley.edu\/node\/6562\">UC Berkeley<\/a> (Berkeley, CA) \u2013 event in English.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, please email Valentine Richet at <a href=\"mailto: valentine.richet@villa-albertine.org\" data-cke-saved-href=\"mailto: valentine.richet@villa-albertine.org\">valentine.richet@villa-albertine.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":533193,"menu_order":0,"template":"","app_discipline":[213],"app_city_tax":[220,217,225],"app_professional_category":[260],"app_professional_content_type":[],"class_list":["post-533142","app_professional","type-app_professional","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","app_discipline-literature","app_city_tax-la","app_city_tax-nyc","app_city_tax-sf","app_professional_category-books-ideas"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Author on Tour: Constance Debr\u00e9 - Villa Albertine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/villa-albertine.org\/va\/professionals\/author-on-tour-constance-debre\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Author on Tour: Constance Debr\u00e9 - Villa Albertine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"About Constance Debr\u00e9 Constance Debr\u00e9 left her career as a lawyer to become a writer. 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