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The Challenge of “L’Inceste” and “The Incest Diary”

Reviewers of “L’Inceste” avoided calling it porn, but, as with “The Incest Diary,” it provoked severe discomfort: Is there any part of this that we enjoy reading? Just as Angot and the author of “The Incest Diary” struggle with the question of whether they were complicit in their own abuse, readers of their books may grapple with the same question. Are we voyeurs or witnesses? Do we judge the women’s behavior, and, if so, according to what ethical standard?

newyorker.com

Jours d’inceste

Un livre-choc, à l’indéniable puissance narrative, mais aussi un « livre-médecine », exceptionnel et salutaire, qui met sur ce que vivent et éprouvent les victimes d’inceste des mots justes. Parce qu’elle a tenu à garder l’anonymat, l’auteure de «Jours d’inceste» porte la parole de toutes celles qui ne peuvent ou n’osent encore parler. Ce qu’elle décrit de l’intérieur avec sa voix unique, et qu’elle a enduré de la petite enfance jusqu’à l’âge de 21 ans, pourra choquer ceux qui refusent de savoir. Les autres, tous les autres, les victimes d’inceste comme les thérapeutes, reconnaîtront dans cette histoire vraie et terrible la vérité sur une emprise absolue, la vérité sur le tabou des tabous.

lefigaro.fr

Why ‘The Incest Diary’ is creating such a stir

Alexis Kirschbaum, Bloomsbury’s publishing director in the UK, describes the book as “the most disturbing book [she’s] ever read” and admitted “some people are very uncomfortable with this book and some publishers are worried they would be complicit if they made it public”.
But she defended the book, which some argue “fetishises female misery”, saying it is “incredibly beautifully written”

news.com.au

Incest memoir ‘a work of art’

Littérature

The author, apparently in her 40s, writes that her father first abused her when she was three, that their sexual relationship lasted into her 20s, and that her mother and other family members were aware of it.

timeslive.co.za