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Archipelago Books

Incest

Incest

by Christine Angot, translated from the French by Tess Lewis

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A daring novel that made Christine Angot one of the most acclaimed and controversial authors in contemporary France, Incest is a virtuosic performance of a woman’s psychoanalytic journey inward. Tess Lewis’s forceful translation captures the boldness of Angot’s vision.

The narrator is falling out from a torrential relationship with another woman. Delirious with love, loss and yearning, her thoughts become increasingly cyclical and wild as the trauma underlying her pain and fractured sense of self resurfaces. With the naked intimacy of confession, and with bracing honesty, the narrator lays bare her experiences of a tangled web of desire, paranoia, and incest.

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Series: Archipelago Books
ISBN: 9780914671879
Pages: 160
Publication Date:

Praise

Incest is a thrilling book. It’s a formally daring and passionate performance of the depths of human self-loathing, and the sufferings of attachment. It cut deep inside me with its truths. In every moment of reading it, I both wanted to keep reading it and wanted to write. I don’t think I will ever forget this book.
—Sheila Heti, author of How Should a Person Be?

A maximalist in the art of emotion, Angot unmasks with frightening precision the roiling heart and the sharp edges of lust, loathing, and scorn lodged within love's fossil record. This is a book that points you toward the subterranean roots of your own emotions, the intricacies and murk we cover up in the name of normal daily operations.
—Alexandra Kleeman, author of You Too Can Have a Body Like Mine

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

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