Christine Angot
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Christine Angot is a French writer, novelist and playwright.

Life

Born Pierrette, Marie-Clotilde Schwartz (her mother's name) in Châteauroux
Châteauroux
Châteauroux is the capital of the Indre department in central France and the second-largest town in the province of Berry, after Bourges. Its residents are called Castelroussines or Castelroussins....

, Indre, she is perhaps best known for her 1999 novel L'Inceste (Incest) which recounts an incestuous relationship with her father.
It is a subject which appears in several of her previous books, but it is unclear whether these works are autofiction
Autofiction
Autofiction is a term used in literary criticism to refer to a form of fictionalized autobiography.Serge Doubrovsky coined the term in 1977 with reference to his novel Fils. Autofiction combines two paradoxically contradictory styles: that of autobiography, and fiction...

 and the events described true. Angot herself describes her work – a metafiction on society's fundamental prohibition of incest and her own writings on the subject – as a performative (cf Quitter la ville).

Novels

  • Vu du ciel (1990)
  • Not to be (1991)
  • Léonore, toujours (1994)
  • Interview (1995)
  • Les Autres (1997)
  • Sujet Angot (1998)
  • L'Usage de la vie incluant Corps plongés dans un liquide, Même si et Nouvelle vague (1998)
  • L'Inceste (1999)
  • Quitter la ville (2000)
  • Normalement suivi de La Peur du lendemain (2001)
  • Pourquoi le Brésil ? (2002)
  • Peau d'âne (2003)
  • Les Désaxés (2004)
  • Une partie du cœur (2004)
  • Rendez-vous (2006)
  • Othoniel (2006)
  • Le marché des amants (2008)
  • Les Petits (2011)

Plays

  • Corps plongés dans un liquide (1992)
  • Nouvelle vague (1992)
  • Même si (1996)
  • L'Usage de la vie (1997)
  • Arrêtez, arrêtons, arrête (1997)
  • Mais aussi autre chose (1999)
  • La Fin de l'amour (2000)
  • Meinhof/Angot (2001)
  • Normalement (2002)
  • La Place du singe (2005)
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