Christine Angot

Christine Angot (born 7 February 1959) is a French writer, novelist and playwright.

Life

Born Pierrette, Marie-Clotilde Schwartz (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 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).^[2]

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)

References