In her third book, Name, Constance Debré examines her chaotic upbringing with drug-addicted parents, shattering the illusion of a perfect childhood. As the granddaughter of a French prime minister, she confronts the weight of her surname and explores themes of identity and inheritance. Through her narrative, Debré articulates a desire to escape the burden of origins, rejecting sentimental portrayals of her family life. This book culminates her journey, bringing to light the painful realities beneath a glamorous facade, while emphasizing the transformative power of self-expression in her writing.
When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished," wrote the Polish Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz. This is certainly true of Debré, a writer who has chronicled her own life in merciless detail across three intoxicating, semi-autobiographical novels.
In Name, the third and final book in Debré's acclaimed autofictional trilogy, the French author takes a sledgehammer to her own family, shattering the illusion that she enjoyed a picture-perfect, bourgeois childhood in Paris.
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