Constance DejongVezi magazinul LibrisPeople used to tell me, if you keep on writing maybe you'll make a name for yourself, New York-based artist and writer Constance DeJong (born 1950) wrote in Modern Love .
They were right: My name's Constance DeJong.
My name's Fifi Corday.
My name's Lady Mirabelle, Monsieur Le Prince, and Roderigo.
Roderigo's my favorite name.
First I had my father's name, then my husband's, then another's.
I don't know.
I don't want to know the cause of anything.
Modern Love , DeJong's first book, was published in 1977 by Standard Editions, an imprint co-founded by DeJong and Dorothea Tanning.
In 1978, the text was adapted into a 60-minute radio program accompanied by the Modern Love Waltz, a piano composition by Philip Glass.
In this new edition, DeJong's debut novel is brought back into print, her dissonant shifts of voice and inimitable staccato rhythm made available to a new generation of readers.
