Constance Debré, reading and discussion with Violaine Huisman

On Friday, March 25, LUMA welcomed author Constance Debré to Arles for a reading and discussion of her latest book Nom, published in February 2022 by Flammarion. Following her two previous books, Play boy (2018) and Love Me Tender (2020), Nom questions normative structures and calls for the radical dissolution of, among other things, heritage, patriarchal authority, marriage, and family in society.

In her book, Debré writes: "I have a political program. I am for the abolition of inheritance, of the obligation of support between ascendants and descendants, I am for the abolition of parental authority, I am for the abolition of marriage, I am for the separation of children from their parents at the earliest age, I am for the abolition of filiation, I am for the abolition of the family name, I am against guardianship, minority, I am against patrimony, I am against domicile, nationality, I am for the abolition of civil status, I am for the abolition of the family, I am for the abolition of childhood too if we can. "

Constance Debré
Constance Debré is the author of Play boy, Stock (2018); Love Me Tender, Flammarion (2020); Nom, Flammarion (2022). She was a resident at LUMA Arles from October 2020 to January 2021.

Violaine Huisman
Violaine Huisman is the author of Desert Rose [Rose Désert], Gallimard (2019) as well as The Book of Mother, Scribner (2021), which was one of the New York Times 100 Notable Books. The French version, published in 2018, also won the prize Marie Claire et Françoise Sagan the same year. She lives and works between Arles, Marseille and New York.