An Impossible Love - by Christine Angot (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b>An agonizing turbulence lies just beneath the surface of this skillfully wrought novel by the French phenom who caused a sensation with the publication of her novel <i>Incest</i>.<br></b></b> <p/>Reaching back into a world before she was born, Christine Angot describes the inevitable encounter of two young people at a dance in the early 1950s: Rachel and Pierre, her mother and father. Their love is acute. It twists around Pierre's decisive judgments about class, nationalism, and beauty, and winds its way towards dissolution and Christine's own birth. Though it's Pierre whose ideas are most often voiced, it's Rachel who slowly comes into view, her determination and patience forming a radiant, enigmatic disposition. Equal parts subtle and suspenseful, <i>An Impossible Love</i> is an unwavering advance toward a brutal sequence of events that mars both Christine's and Rachel's lives. Angot the author carves Angot the narrator out of this corrosive element, exposing an unmendable rupture, and at the same time offering a portrait of a striking, ineradicable bond between mother and daughter.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>The most recently translated autofiction by controversial French literary phenomenon Angot brings her unflinching intelligence to a terrible childhood trauma . . . Described without overstatement or sensationalism, raw and honest, [Rachel and Christine's] experience rings brutally true . . . Disturbing, powerful, a deeply personal story that is also searingly political.<br><b>--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)</b> <p/>An illuminating account of a mother and daughter's complicated love. <br><b>-- <i>Publishers Weekly<br></i></b> <br>I was enthralled by <i>An Impossible Love</i> from the first page to the last. Christine Angot brilliantly traces the minute fluctuations of emotion in her trio of characters, as well as the evasions, omissions and deceptions implicit in every kind of love. A daring and impressive performance.<br><b>--Lynne Sharon Schwartz</b> <p/>Praise for <i>Incest</i> <p/> 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 <p/>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 <p/>At times reminiscent of playwright Sarah Kane, particularly in her incantatory free associations . . . Incest is remarkably prescient. Christine Angot pinpoints how technology antagonizes mental health; how a lack of immediate reply can give the obsessive mind no room to breath. -- Rebecca Watson, <i>The Times Literary Supplement</i> <p/>A sensation in France, [Incest is a] novel in the form of a wild confession of a life filled with trauma. -- <i>The New York Times</i> <p/>Given Angot's antagonism toward conventional syntax, the English translation, by Tess Lewis, is a feat of perspicuity... When L'Inceste was first published, an interviewer asked Angot what she hoped to achieve. My ambition is to be unmanageable, she said. That people swallow me and at the same time cannot digest me. -- H. C. Wilentz, <i>The New Yorker</i> <p/>Angot's writing reclaims the confession as a radical act--spiritual, even... At its core, <i>Incest</i> is a true testament to the subversive power of literature, in that it transmutes the violation of incest into connection with the reader. -- Elizabeth Baird, <i>The Millions</i> <p/>Christine Angot, who despises proper sentiment, has a fascinating, exhilarating, dazzling sensitivity. -- Yann Moix, <i>Le Figaro littéraire</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>CHRISTINE ANGOT is one of the most controversial authors writing today in France. Since the 1999 publication of <i>Incest, </i> Angot has remained at the center of public debate and has continued to push the boundaries of what society allows an author to express. Born in 1958 in Châteauroux, Angot studied law at the University of Reims and began writing at the age of 25. Her literary works have received prizes including the Prix France Culture in 2005 (for <i>Les Désaxés</i> and <i>Une partie du coeur</i>), the Prix Flore in 2006 (for <i>Rendez-vous</i>) and the Prix Sade in 2012 (for <i>Une semaine de vacances</i>), which she refused on the grounds that the theme of the prize did not correspond to the book she had written. In 2015 she won the Prix Décembre for her novel Un Amour impossible. Angot is now also a commentator on the television show On n'est pas couché.<br/>ARMINE KOTIN MORTIMER is the translator of Philippe Sollers's <i>Mysterious Mozart</i> (University of Illinois Press, 2010) and his <i>Casanova the Irresistible </i>(Illinois, 2016), as well as Julia Kristeva's <i>The Enchanted Clock</i> (Columbia University Press, 2017). Her long career as a professor of French literature occasioned many scholarly books and articles, as well as recognition by the French government with the Palmes Académiques in 2009.
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