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2nd December 2008

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French novel labelled 'boring'

22.09.08

Her books have shocked, titillated, appalled and delighted readers for more than a decade. She has been condemned as a self-obsessed, navel-gazing publicity hound, who represents all that has gone wrong with French fiction. But never before has a work by Christine Angot, labelled the queen of 'auto-fiction', suffered the indignity of being judged boring, reports the Guardian.

The attacks have undoubtedly been ferocious. Critic Christine Ferniot, writing in Lire magazine, described The Lover Market as 'dry, grey and boring... a B-series film with a Richard Clayderman soundtrack.' For Jérome Dupuis, in the weekly L'Express, the book was 'a long woolly text stuffed with inept conversations.'

Guardian

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