Incest [Paperback]

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'sIncestaudaciously confronts its readers with one of our greatest taboos.2018 Prix Albertine finalist

A sensation in France, [INCEST is a] novel in the form of a wild confession of a life filled with trauma...  — The New York Times

Written in emotional, stream-of-consciousness prose, Incest can often feel agitated and erratic, perfectly capturing the shattered inner world of its narrator, who is suggested throughout to be the author herself. . . Incest challenges, disgusts and confounds, making it a moving and memorable contribution to contemporary literature. Angot's work of auto-fiction confronts the brutality and pervasiveness of desire and will appeal to those both fascinated and terrified by explorations into the darkness of human nature. — Shelf Awareness

Angot is being most truthful when she is discussing her choices as a writer. On one level, I see this book as a treatise on writing itself. —Electric Literature

At times reminiscent of playwright Sarah Kane, particularly in her incantatory free associations ... Incest is remarkably prescient. Chril#A