Christine Angot (born 7 February 1959) is a French writer and
novelist.Born Pierrette Marie-Clotilde Schwartz (Schwartz being her
mother's name) in Châteauroux, Indre, she is perhaps best known for
her 1999 novel L'Inceste (Incest) which recounts an incestuous
relationship with her father.[1] It is a subject which appears in
several of her previous books, but it is unclear whether these works
are autofiction, and whether the events described actually took place.
Angot herself describes her work â€" a metafiction on society's
fundamental prohibition of incest and her own writings on the subject
â€" as performative acts. (cf Quitter la ville).[2]
novelist.Born Pierrette Marie-Clotilde Schwartz (Schwartz being her
mother's name) in Châteauroux, Indre, she is perhaps best known for
her 1999 novel L'Inceste (Incest) which recounts an incestuous
relationship with her father.[1] It is a subject which appears in
several of her previous books, but it is unclear whether these works
are autofiction, and whether the events described actually took place.
Angot herself describes her work â€" a metafiction on society's
fundamental prohibition of incest and her own writings on the subject
â€" as performative acts. (cf Quitter la ville).[2]
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