Othoniel

by Christine Angot, Stephen Wright (Translator)

Pour la première fois, l’artiste Jean-Michel Othoniel, connu pour ses installations en verre de Murano dont Le Kiosque des Noctambules (place du Palais-Royal, Paris), publie dix ans d’œuvres sur papier.

176 pages, Hardcover

First published June 1, 2006

About the author

French novelist and playwright, she is perhaps best known for her 1999 novel L'Inceste (Incest) which recounts an incestuous relationship with her father. It is a subject which appears in several of her previous books, but it is unclear whether these works are autofiction and the events described true. Angot herself describes her work - a metafiction on society's fundamental prohibition of incest and her own writings on the subject - as a performative (cf Quitter la ville).

Angot is also literary director for French publishers Stock

Reviews

[heyyonicki · Rating 4 out of 5]

Texte assez sympathique qui ne parvient pas à maintenir sa qualité stylistique tout du long mais qui introduit très bien aux dessins et projets de l'artiste. Les reproductions sont belles et permettent de découvrir un grand pan de la production d'Othoniel.