A daring novel that made Christine Angot one of the most controversial figures in contemporary France recounts the narrator's incestuous relationship with her father. Tess Lewis's forceful translation brings into English this audacious novel of taboo. The narrator is falling out from a torrential relationship with another woman. Delirious with love and yearning, her thoughts grow increasingly cyclical and wild, until exposing the trauma lying behind her pain. With the intimacy offered by a confession, the narrator embarks on a psychoanalysis of herself, giving the reader entry into her tangled experiences with homosexuality, paranoia, and, at the core of it all, incest. In a masterful translation from the French by Tess Lewis, Christine Angot's Incest audaciously confronts its readers with one of our greatest taboos.

Incest

Literature & Fiction

Angot, Christine

Literary

Archipelago

An agonizing turbulence lies just beneath the surface of this skillfully wrought novel by the French phenom who caused a sensation with the publication of her novel Incest. Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a dance in the early 1950s: Rachel and Pierre, her mother and father. Their love is acute. It twists around Pierre's decisive judgments about class, nationalism, and beauty, and winds its way towards dissolution and Christine's own birth. Though it's Pierre whose ideas are most often voiced, it's Rachel who slowly comes into view, her determination and patience forming a radiant, enigmatic disposition. Equal parts subtle and suspenseful, An Impossible Love is an unwavering advance toward a brutal sequence of events that mars both Christine's and Rachel's lives. Angot the author carves Angot the narrator out of this corrosive element, exposing an unmendable rupture, and at the same time offering a portrait of a striking, ineradicable bond between mother and daughter.

An Impossible Love

United States

Othoniel

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Flammarion

"- Vu l'ancienneté des faits, il sera sans doute compliqué de les faire établir, et vraisemblablement, votre père ne sera pas condamné...- Alors, il y a des faits plus récents, qui ont eu lieu à Nancy, à Nice, à Paris et à Tende, il y a deux ans. Ce serait peut-être plus facile...- Certainement.- Mais j'étais majeure.- Ça reste des viols par ascendant, madame. Et qui ont eu un commencement d'exécution quand vous étiez mineure. Moi, je vais le faire convoquer dans un commissariat de Strasbourg. Il aura une grosse frayeur. Il sera difficile d'apporter les preuves. Il y aura sans doute un non-lieu..."

Le Voyage dans l'Est

L'inceste

Stock

Quitter la ville (French Edition)

Contemporary

Peau d'âne

Genre Fiction

Interview

Pocket

Sujet Angot

Une semaine de vacances

J'Ai Lu

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