As her notorious French novel is published in the UK, Constance Debré talks about how her previous career as a lawyer influences her writing, and why Love Me Tender is being misunderstood as a ‘queer identity’ novel
The swaggering, assured confidence of its ‘I’ voice, that sits brilliantly and humanly, against the fact that its position, on love and other things, is constantly being revised.
, and it’s normal to compare my writing to other contemporary writers, and of course they matter, but not that much. Except probably for Dustan, you are right, especially forBut I think one of the answers, in terms of inspiration, is not in other books but is in law, and in my legal pastEspecially in French case law, which is very different from British law or US law, in that it is very much about language, about a very precise, simple, clear and effective use of language.
HC: How easy did you find it to write a novel – can I call it a novel? – that draws so closely from very painful parts of your life? But it’s the first thing people see, so they just say ‘the character is a gay woman, so it’s about that, it’s about identity and queer identity.’ Well, no actually. I had in mind, it’s an old way of seeing things, the Greek one, where you have, say, Ulysses, just this guy who is a hero because he’s defying the gods and so he has trials all the time, but it’s because of the trials that he is a hero.
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