Modern Love

Constance DeJong�s debut novel, back in print�People 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.