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Christine Angot. L'inceste. Paris. Stock. 1999. 217 pages. 105 F. ISBN 2-234-05148-7.
AS HER FRENCH AUDIENCE has come to expect, Christine Angot very provocatively delivers another slice of her own life with her most recent literary effort, L'inceste, her seventh and perhaps most ambitiously complex novel. Angot's account thrusts the reader into a sensual tangle of incest and homosexuality that seems purposefully designed to shock. The novel's crude physicality, injected with a semblance of penetrating sarcastic humor, moves upon the reader in such a way as to force a glimpse of the rupture, anguish, and violence that many women must endure. Throughout L'inceste, Angot's rhythmic telling of events both sensual and terrible draws the reader ever deeper into a fascination with a life both perverse...