Incest
Publisher
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Stock
Parution date
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1999
EAN
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9782234051485
Description
Christine Angot’s provocative novel is divided into three penetrating chapters. The first, «No man’s land,» begins: «I was homosexual for three months. More precisely, for three months I believed that I was condemned,» making reference to Hervé Guibert’s influential novel, To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life. In the second part, the author tries to explain «how she went crazy» by unflinchingly describing the signs and symptoms of her madness. The third part retraces the hopes, seductions, broken promises and humiliations that marked her incestuous relationship with her father. This is neither a testimony of, nor a novel on incest. Rather, it is a very powerful work from a unique writer who disturbs us because she entangles fiction with reality. The publication of L’Inceste in France last year created a controversy. A bestseller, it received a great deal of media attention and inspired the author to write the follow-up, Quitter la ville. L’Inceste will be translated into 6 languages.
Author
Christine Angot : Christine Angot published the bestselling L’Inceste in 1999. Quitter la ville follows exactly one year later.
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