Christine Angot is a writer whose novel Un amour impossible has been adapted into a series. It will be broadcast this Monday, September 26 on France 3. During the writing, she was able to count on the support of Léonore Chastagner, her daughter.
It’s a special evening that will take place on France 3 this Monday, September 26. This will begin with the broadcast of the film An impossible love, adapted from the eponymous novel by Christine Angot. A work that is close to his heart since it evokes his private life and in particular the incest she suffered when she was younger. During the writing of this one, Christine Angot was able to count on the support of her daughter, Léonore Chastagner. But who is she? Very little information about it is available online. Now 31 years old, she studied art history before turning to the Villa Arson, National School of Art, in Nice. During her studies, she developed a sculptural work where the enunciation becomes a physical material, between sensation and memory. Léonore Chastagner is the daughter of writer Christine Angot and Claude Chastagner. Very discreet in the media, she is a sculptor but nevertheless wished to associate with his mother during the writing of To liketwo unpublished texts that speak of love and creation. “From day to day, I write texts, from everyday life. On the other hand, I make objects, with techniques that take time. These objects are also drawn from my own life“, she explained in the columns of Montevideo.
Léonore Chastagner is very discreet in the media but this is not the case with her mother. Christine Angot is a name that needs no introduction and that has made multiple television appearances. Novelist for many years, her literary works very often deal with subjects that have touched her personally. In 1999, she unveiled her book titled Incest, which allowed him to become a personality of contemporary French-speaking literature. In this one, she notably mentioned the incest she suffered from her father. Between the age of thirteen and sixteen, he raped her several times, leaving her with serious trauma which she wishes to speak about publicly. Subsequently, she unveiled two other books entitled An impossible love as well as The Journey to the East who allowed him to tell his story. When she left her hometown to pursue her studies, Christine Angot discovered a passion for writing. on everything that surrounds him and what happens in his private life. After having suffered many refusals, she finally got this phone call that changed her life and now allows her to be an accomplished artist.
Christine Angot, a woman with a strong personality
Christine Angot is known for her works but also for his many controversial television appearances. We could find it in culture brothand Everybody talks about it where she even leaves the set judging Thierry Ardisson’s questions far too light. Between 2017 and 2019, alongside Laurent Ruquier and Yann Moix in We are not in bed viewers could see it. Always very transparent and cash, she gives sometimes controversial opinions and takes strong positions that sometimes create controversy. She also had to face justice on several occasions in cases that have been highly publicized. Following the publication of his book lovers market in 2008, she was obliged to compensate, after agreement, up to 10,000 euros, Élise Bidoit, the former companion of Charly Clovis, the current partner of Christine Angot. Indeed, Elise Bidoit had claimed to have recognized in part of the situation described in the work. Similarly a few years later, in 2011, during the publication of the novel The Little ones. This evokes specific episodes, sometimes violent or terrible, of the intimate life of the couple inspired by Élise Bidoit and Charly Clovis.
Christine Angot: who does she share her life with?
Léonore Chastagner is passionate about art and writing who has opted for discretion. Her private life is not displayed on social networks and very little information about her is available. For her part, Christine Angot is more used to confiding and her strong personality has been very noticed. After having long shared the life of Claude Chastagner, with whom she was married, it is in the arms of Doc Gyneco, in 2006 that she found love again. A relationship that ended two years later and it is with Charly Clovisa Martinican musician and friend of Doc Gyneco whom she now shares her life with.