Constance Debré
@ Renaissance Society, CLASSICS BUILDING
1010 E 59th St Chicago, IL 60637
Opening Tuesday, May 21st, at 6:30PM
Tue, May 21, 2024
6:30pm
1010 E 59TH ST, CLASSICS BUILDING, ROOM #110
Join us for a special program featuring novelist Constance Debré, in conjunction with Jordan Strafer’s exhibition, DECADENCE. A former lawyer turned writer, Debré is one of France’s most exciting literary voices, known for her radically truthful style. Her first novel, Playboy, published in France in 2018 and newly available in English, tracks Debré’s decision to abandon her bourgeois married life to become a lesbian and a writer. Her follow-up, Love Me Tender, further explores the consequences as Debré navigates a brutal custody battle for her son and reframes what it means to be a mother. In 2023, Debré also contributed an essay to a catalogue about Jordan Strafer’s work, published by Secession in Vienna. Visiting Chicago for the occasion, Debré will talk about Strafer’s films in relation to her own work and then join Strafer in conversation.
This program is presented with additional support from the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at the University of Chicago and the France Chicago Center.
Official Website
More events on this date
Tags: Chicago, Constance Debré, Hyde Park, Jordan Strafer, Jordan Strafer: DECADENCE, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago
« previous event
next event »