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Christine Angot (born 7 February 1959) is a French novelist, playwright and screenwriter. Life [ edit ] 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]
- French
- Prix Médicis (2021)
- 1990–present
- Incest (1999)
The French novelist explores how her family dealt with her revelation that she was repeatedly raped by her father from the age of 13. She confronts her stepmother, mother, ex-husband and daughter in the film "A Family", premiering at Berlin Film Festival.
- Leo Barraclough
Christine Angot ( API : kʁis.tin ɑ̃.ɡo), née Schwartz le à Châteauroux ( Indre ), est une romancière et dramaturge française. Elle pratique fréquemment la lecture publique de ses textes, notamment sur scène. L'œuvre littéraire de cette figure emblématique de l' autofiction – un terme que toutefois elle rejette –, ainsi que ses ...
Feb 22, 2024 · French writer Christine Angot has written many books, but Incest (1999) is arguably the one she is most famous for. Variously defined by Angot and others as a novel but also a work of ...
Feb 25, 2024 · Christine Angot, during a literary event in Kraków, Poland, in October of 2023. NurPhoto (Getty Images) In successive meetings with other members of her family, this lack of communication will give way to a possible understanding and a utopian sense of calm.
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Feb 18, 2024 · With over 20 books to her name, author Christine Angot has been a pillar of France’s literary scene for more than three decades. Her breakthrough novel Incest, published in 1999, was a ...
Feb 15, 2018 · But Angot, a genre-bender in the spirit of Marguerite Duras and Hervé Guibert, has rejected tidy autobiographical readings of her work—in a 1995 interview, when asked about the Christine Angot ...
