Christine Angot

French writer/novelist/playwright.
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroFrench writer/novelist/playwright.
PlacesFrance
isWriter Playwright
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio Literature
Gender
Female
Birth7 February 1959, Châteauroux, Indre, Centre-Val de Loire, France
Age65 years
Star signAquarius
The details

Biography

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

Life

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.

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).

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)
  • La Petite Foule (2014)

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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