Valérie A, contributor of the group reading
20 minutes Books, recommend you The trip to the east by Christine Angot, published on August 18, 2021 by Éditions Flammarion.
Her favorite quote:
“The surveillance didn’t change anything. The gestures were taking place. Monitoring. Dams. Controls. When they arrived, you had to pretend it wasn’t a big deal. Pretending has become a general attitude. An automatism. Applicable to everything. That permeated all my relationships. The attitude I should adopt with him determined how I spoke to others about him. “
Why this book?
- Because this strong novel deals with incest with lucidity and finesse, from the point of view of the child, then of the adolescent and the young woman victim of her father.
- Because we discover the meeting of Christine Angot with the one who must recognize her, not having done so at birth, having left her mother before; this father, Pierre Angot, great translator, an intellectual. Then begin the touching, the blowjobs, the caresses and all the rest. As if she should be grateful for giving him his name.
- Because the author also analyzes the lack of reaction of those close to him and probes the origins of this wound so intimate and so deep. Because incest, we must not talk about it, it’s taboo …
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot. Christine, 13, finally meets her father Pierre Angot, who works at the Council of Europe. He will give it his name. She admires him. Then begin the gestures, the caresses, the incest. This incest which will continue for a long time. Christine, distraught, is unable to end it. …
Characters. Christine, her father Pierre Angot, Claude her husband.
Places. Chateauroux, Reims, Strasbourg, Nice
The time. 1972 until 1994.
The author. Christine Angot, born Schwartz on February 7, 1959 in Châteauroux, is a French novelist and playwright. She frequently practices public reading of her texts, especially on stage. Since the publication of Incest in 1999, she became a personality of French literature.
This book was read with astonishment. We come out stunned, revolted.
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