Incest

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Dwight Garner, Disturbing Dive into the Abyss of Abuse; The horror scenes in an intense, anonymous memoir makes a vertiginous pile. New York Times, July 19, 2017
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/ ... s-incest-diary.html
(book review on (no name), The Incest Diary. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017)

Quote: "an anonymous writer tells the story of being raped by her father, starting when she was 3. * * * The author, who appears to be about 40, stopped having sex with her father when she was 21."
Note:
(a) "You can always count on a murderer, Nabokov's Humbert Humbert declared, for a fancy prose style."
(i) Vladimir Nabokov
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Nabokov
(1899 – 1977; Russian-American; born in in Saint Petersburg, Russia; after the 1917 February Revolution his father became a secretary of the Russian Provisional Government -- then the family fled after October Revolution, eventually arrived in Manhattan in 1940)
(ii) Lolita
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita
(published in 1955;  

Quote: "a middle-aged literature professor called Humbert Humbert—is obsessed with the 12-year-old Dolores Haze, with whom he becomes sexually involved after he becomes her stepfather. 'Lolita' is his private nickname for Dolores."

(iii) Lolita (given name)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lolita_(given_name)

(b) "Twenty years ago, the novelist Kathryn Harrison published [a non-fiction] 'The Kiss' * * * Harrison's book recounted her obsessive affair with her once-estranged father, a minister, which commenced when she was 20. * * * Next to 'The Incest Diary,' a grindhouse dive into the abyss, Harrison's memoir reads like a Jorie Graham poem."
(i) Kathryn Harrison, The Kiss; A memoir. Random House, 1997.
(ii) Sins of the Father. Oprah, Oct 15, 2009
www.oprah.com/relationships/ince ... -harrisons-the-kiss

(c) "Incest has been a steady presence in post-Homeric literature, from 'Oedipus Rex' and Shakespeare's 'Pericles' through Ralph Ellison's 'The Invisible Man,' Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History' and pulp classics such as VC Andrews's 'Flowers in the Attic.' "
(i) Oedipus Rex
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oedipus_Rex
(A) The rex is Latin noun masculine for king.
(B) As you can see, the title changed from Greek to Latin. See
The original title of the play was not 'Oedipus Rex' but 'Oedipus Tyrannus.' Which title is more appropriate?  Dec7, 2007.
https://www.enotes.com/homework- ... as-not-oedipus-rex-
(ii) Pericles, Prince of Tyre
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles,_Prince_of_Tyre

, not to be confused with a historic person Pericles,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles
(iii) In the fiction "The narrator is the 'invisible man' of the title," as a SparkNotes Web page says.  One character, Jim Trueblood, impregnates both his wife and his daughter. The character, as well as the author (Ralph Ellison, an American) are both black.
(iv) In the fiction "The Secret History," fraternal twins Charles and Camilla Macaulay, students in a fictitious Hampden College in Vermont. were in a incestuous relationship -- though the Wiki page for the title does not mention it (incest).
(v) VC Andrews
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V._C._Andrews
(Flowers in the Attic (1979) )

(d) "About this book’s veracity, its publisher's editor at large, Lorin Stein, who also edits The Paris Review"

The Paris Review
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Paris_Review