Dear Christine, Do you know that feeling we have when we know where a book was going, and we know it could have worked – but it simply didn’t? I feel that about your novel Incest (2017) translated by Tess Lewis (L’Incest, 1999). Trying to be experimental while never giving up control over what the experiment…
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Christine Angot
Christine Angot (born 7 February 1959) is a French writer. She was brought up by her single-parent mother. She went to university in Rheims, specialising in English and Law, but dropped out after a year to pursue her writing career. Books In English Incest, 2017, tr. Tess Lewis, 160 p. Novels in French Vu du ciel (1990) Not to…
All this has been described a thousand times
Dear Jean, I am writing to you in haste, just to share my impressions on 1914: a novel (tr. Linda Coverdale), which I read for Caroline’s Literature and War Readalong 2016. During the Easter holidays, we are leaving for a bike trip to Austria, and I don’t know if I would have the time (or the…
Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz (26 December 1947) is a French novelist. He studied sociology and engineering in Rodez, Digne-les-Bains, Lyon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille and Paris. He worked briefly at the newspaper L’Humanité. In 1975, he attended a course at the École pratique des hautes études et des enseignements, at the Sorbonne Awards 1979 : Prix Fénéon for Le Méridien de Greenwich 1983 : Prix Médicis for Cherokee 1999 :…
