L'Usage de la vie

by Christine Angot

French

214 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 1998

About the author

French novelist and playwright, 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).

Angot is also literary director for French publishers Stock

Reviews

[Audre · Rating 1 out of 5]

well well well... pff. it was weirdly awkward and hard to finish. I didn't like it... Like. it was kind of a mess for me.

[Yorekhof · Rating 1 out of 5]

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