Christine Angot
Encyclopedia
Christine Angot is a French writer, novelist and playwright.
, 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
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).
Life
Born Pierrette, Marie-Clotilde Schwartz (her mother's name) in ChâteaurouxChâteauroux
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)