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Who you think I am

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Who you think I am
Camille Laurens
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An edition of Who you think I am (2017)

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"In a vertiginous play of mirrors between fantasy and virtual reality, Camille Laurens relates the dangerous liaisons of a woman who refuses to give up on desire. This is the story of Claire Millecam, a 48 year-old teacher and divorcee, who creates a fake social media profile to try to keep tabs on Jo, her occasional, elusive, and inconstant lover. Under the false identity of Claire Antunes, a young and beautiful 24 year-old, she starts a correspondence with Chris--pseudonym KissChris--which soon turns into an Internet love affair. WHO YOU THINK I AM is a true novel of our times that brilliantly exposes the disconnect between desire and fantasy. Social media allows us to put ourselves on display, to indulge in secrets, but above all it allows us to lie, to recreate a life, to become our own fiction--a mixture of sentimental naivety and manipulative perversity which echoes the libertine novels of the 18th century"--

"This is the story of Claire Millecam, a forty-eight-year-old teacher and divorcee who creates a fake social media profile to try to keep tabs on Jo, her occasional, elusive, and inconstant lover. Under the false identity of Claire Antunes, a young and beautiful twenty-four-year-old, she starts a correspondence with Chris--pseudonym KissChris--which soon turns into an Internet love affair. Who You Think I Am is a true novel of our times that brilliantly exposes the disconnect between desire and fantasy. Social media allow us to put ourselves on display, to indulge in secrets, but above all to lie, to recreate a life, to become our own fiction--a mixture of sentimental naivety manipulative perversity which echoes the libertine novels of the eighteenth century."--

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English
Pages
176

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Edition Notes

"Originally published in France as Celle que vous croyez by Éditions Gallimard, Paris, in 2016"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (page 179).

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843/.914
Library of Congress
PQ2672.A78365 C4513 2017, PQ2672.A78365C4513

The Physical Object

Pagination
176 pages, unnumbered sequence of pages
Number of pages
176

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Open Library
OL26939136M
ISBN 10
1590518322
ISBN 13
9781590518328
LCCN
2016036970
OCLC/WorldCat
960762435
Amazon ID (ASIN)
B01HWKOF9W

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