Nathalie Sarraute

Author : Nathalie Sarraute
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780811222778

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Tropisms by Nathalie Sarraute Pdf

Nathalie Sarraute's stunning debut—vignettes of "inner movements"—foreshadowed the rise of the nouveau roman. Hailed as a masterpiece by Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Tropisms is considered one of the defining texts of the nouveau roman movement. Nathalie Sarraute has defined her work as the “movements that are hidden under the commonplace, harmless instances of our everyday lives.” Like figures in a grainy photograph, Sarraute’s characters are blurred and shadowy, while her narrative never develops beyond a stressed moment. Instead, Sarraute brilliantly finds and elaborates subtle details—when a relationship changes, when we fall slightly deeper into love, or when something innocent tilts to the smallest degree toward suspicion.

Author : Ann Jefferson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2023-05-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691210247

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Nathalie Sarraute by Ann Jefferson Pdf

The definitive biography of a leading twentieth-century French writer A leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999) was also one of France's most cosmopolitan literary figures, and her life was bound up with the intellectual and political ferment of twentieth-century Europe. Ann Jefferson's Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between is the authoritative biography of this major writer. Sarraute's life spanned a century and a continent. Born in tsarist Russia to Jewish parents, she was soon uprooted and brought to the city that became her lifelong home, Paris. This dislocation presaged a life marked by ambiguity and ambivalence. A stepchild in two families, a Russian émigré in Paris, a Jew in bourgeois French society, and a woman in a man’s literary world, Sarraute was educated at Oxford, Berlin, and the Sorbonne. She embarked on a career in law that was ended by the Nazi occupation of France, and she spent much of the war in hiding, under constant threat of exposure. Rising to literary eminence after the Liberation, she was initially associated with the existentialist circle of Beauvoir and Sartre, before becoming the principal theorist and practitioner of the avant-garde French novel of the 1950s and 1960s. Her tireless exploration of the deepest parts of our inner psychological life produced an oeuvre that remains daringly modern and resolutely unclassifiable. Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between explores Sarraute's work and the intellectual, social, and political context from which it emerged. Drawing on newly available archival material and Sarraute's letters, this deeply researched biography is the definitive account of a life lived between countries, families, languages, literary movements, and more.

Author : Sarah Barbour
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838752357

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Nathalie Sarraute and the Feminist Reader by Sarah Barbour Pdf

Situated at an intersection of feminist critical practice in the United States and feminist cultural theory in France, Nathalie Sarraute and the Feminist Reader is an investigation of the way in which this French New Novelist's first eight works, in their increasing dramatization of the issue of reading, problematize certain feminist literary analyses, especially in relation to "l'ecriture feminine." After an exploration of the difficulty Sarraute's writing poses for the critical enterprise through a lengthy reading of Sarrautien criticism in the U.S. and France, Sarah Barbour shows how Sarraute's works eventually prohibit any fixed reading and open up instead a space in which we as readers are moved toward a more personal understanding of our use of narrative and of socio-sexual constructs in the continual, day-to-day constitution and reconstitution of subjectivity. Nathalie Sarraute conceives of the evolution of the novel as a movement through history and thus situates her work within a tradition of psychological realism at the same time that she proposes radical innovations of the tradition. Her novels do not discard or revise past works but rather internalize them in an effort to expand the notion of what is possible for psychological realism. This study takes as its model Sarraute's example of simultaneity, which invites an understanding of time both as a diachronic movement through "phases, ": from the psychological realism of Dostoyevski to that of Kafka to her own, and as a synchronic encounter that elicits simultaneous relationships to different "phases." Within the movement of feminist literary criticism scholars have often discerned what are also referred to as "phases;" that is, criticism in the United States has moved from its initial concern with images of women in fiction by male writers to a desire to establish a feminine tradition of women's writing. Nathalie Sarraute and the Feminist Reader is not an attempt to claim that Sarraute's work represents "ecriture feminine." Reading Sarraute's novels in their "evolution," Sarah Barbour has found that they forced her own reading and understanding of this term to "evolve." She therefore proposes that the novels open up a space that is beyond the frozen shells of gender, which continue to bind women and men personally and critically. The power of Sarraute's work lies in the solitary experience of our encounter with her presentation and perception of reality. In this encounter we are forced to experience the fluid nature of subjectivity; that is, to internalize and explore differences within personal and sexual identity that, by extension, affect the identity of larger political movements.

Author : Nathalie Sarraute
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780226922324

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Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute Pdf

As one of the leading proponents of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute is often remembered for her novels, including The Golden Fruits, which earned her the Prix international de litterature in 1964. But her carefully crafted and evocative memoir Childhood may in fact be Sarraute’s most accessible and emotionally open work. Written when the author was eighty-three years old, but dealing with only the first twelve years of her life, Childhood is constructed as a dialogue between Sarraute and her memory. Sarraute gently interrogates her interlocutor in search of her own intentions, more precise accuracy, and indeed, the truth. Her relationships with her mother in Russia and her stepmother in Paris are especially heartbreaking: long-gone actions are prodded and poked at by Sarraute until they yield some semblance of fact, imbuing these maternalistic interactions with new, deeper meaning. Each vignette is bristling with detail and shows the power of memory through prose by turns funny, sad, and poetic. Capturing the ambience of Paris and Russia in the earliest part of the twentieth century, while never giving up the lyrical style of Sarraute’s novels, this book has much to offer both memoir enthusiasts and fiction lovers.

Author : Ann Jefferson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2000-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781139426794

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Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory by Ann Jefferson Pdf

Nathalie Sarraute (1900–99) is regarded as one of the major French novelists of the twentieth century. Initially hailed as a leading theorist and exemplar of the nouveau roman, she has come to be regarded as an important author in her own right with her own distinctive concerns. In this major 2000 study of Sarraute, the first in English since her death, Ann Jefferson offers a fresh perspective on Sarraute's entire oeuvre - her novels, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings - by focusing on the crucial issue of difference which emerges as one of her central preoccupations. Drawing on a variety of critical approaches, Jefferson explores Sarraute's fundamental ambivalence to differences of various kinds including questions of gender and genre. She argues that difference is simultaneously asserted and denied in Sarraute's work, and that the notion of difference, so often celebrated by other writers and thinkers, is shown in Sarraute's work to the inseparable from ambiguity and anxiety.

Author : Nathalie Sarraute
Publisher : George Braziller
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : PSU:000026540511

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The Age of Suspicion by Nathalie Sarraute Pdf

Author : Nathalie Sarraute
Publisher : Counterpath Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781933996189

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The Use of Speech by Nathalie Sarraute Pdf

Fiction. Translated from the French by Barbara Wright. In this classic later work from French novelist Nathalie Sarraute, one finds a "delectably austere, beady-eyed book.... Phrases that give rise to the scenes or episodes are ordinary enough until Sarraute imagines for them a context which turns them from bland civilities into weapons of psychological warfare. Friends meet and converse, in a cafe or in the street, and are all sociability; except underneath, where the best of friends can be the most savage of opponents. Sarraute resorts sardonically to metaphor to indicate what words will not capture: the shameful and ineffable animosities that...imperil our urbanity" (The Times Literary Supplement).

Author : Ann Jefferson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521027268

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Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory by Ann Jefferson Pdf

Nathalie Sarraute, initially hailed as a leading theorist and exemplar of the nouveau roman, is now regarded as a major French novelist in her own right. Ann Jefferson offers a new perspective on Sarraute's entire oeuvre--her fiction, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings--by focusing on the crucial issue of difference that emerges as one of her central preoccupations. Jefferson explores Sarraute's fundamental ambivalence to differences of various kinds, including questions of gender and genre.

Author : Nathalie Sarraute
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781628974171

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The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute Pdf

A young writer has his heart set on his aunt's large apartment. With this seemingly simple conceit, the characters of The Planetarium are set in orbit and a galaxy of argument, resentment, and bitterness erupts. Telling the story from various points of view, Sarraute focuses below the surface, on the emotional lives of the characters in a way that surpasses even Virginia Woolf. Always deeply engaging, The Planetarium reveals the deep disparity between the way we see ourselves and the way others see us.

Author : Nathalie Sarraute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : French literature
ISBN : IND:30000001699994

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Portrait of a Man Unknown by Nathalie Sarraute Pdf

Author : Nathalie Sarraute
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015009297089

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The Golden Fruits by Nathalie Sarraute Pdf

A group of French literati fall to tearing apart or defending a newly published novel. A satire told in a stream-of-consciousness manner.

Author : Mary Ann Caws,Nicola Luckhurst
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781847143051

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The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe by Mary Ann Caws,Nicola Luckhurst Pdf

The intellectual scope and cultural impact of British writers cannot be assessed without reference to their European fortunes. These essays, prepared by an international team of scholars, critics and translators, record the ways in which Virginia Woolf has been translated, evaluated and emulated in different national and linguistic areas of Europe. Diverse as her reception has been, as analyst of consciousness, as a decadent (censored and banned), as stylistic innovator of Modernism, as crusading feminist and socialist, and as a model for other writers, she has emerged as one of the foremost writers and principal icons of the century.

Author : Hannah Arendt,Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804744998

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Reflections on Literature and Culture by Hannah Arendt,Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb Pdf

This is the first volume in any language that collects Hannah Arendt's remarkable series of essays and notes on literary figures and cultural questions.

Author : Mary Noonan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781351568937

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Echo's Voice by Mary Noonan Pdf

Helene Cixous (1937-), distinguished not least as a playwright herself, told Le Monde in 1977 that she no longer went to the theatre: it presented women only as reflections of men, used for their visual effect. The theatre she wanted would stress the auditory, giving voice to ways of being that had previously been silenced. She was by no means alone in this. Cixous's plays, along with those of Nathalie Sarraute (1900-99), Marguerite Duras (1914-96), and Noelle Renaude (1949-), among others, have proved potent in drawing participants into a dynamic 'space of the voice'. If, as psychoanalysis suggests, voice represents a transitional condition between body and language, such plays may draw their audiences in to understandings previously never spoken. In this ground-breaking study, Noonan explores the rich possibilities of this new audio-vocal form of theatre, and what it can reveal of the auditory self.

Author : Eva Martin Sartori,Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0803292244

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French Women Writers by Eva Martin Sartori,Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman Pdf

Marie de France, Mme. De Sävignä, and Mme. De Lafayette achieved international reputations during periods when women in other European countries were able to write only letters, translations, religious tracts, and miscellaneous fragments. There were obstacles, but French women writers were more or less sustained and empowered by the French culture. Often unconventional in their personal lives and occupied with careers besides writing?as educators, painters, actresses, preachers, salon hostesses, labor organizers?these women did not wait for Simone de Beauvoir to tell them to make existential choices and have "projects in the world." French Women Writers describes the lives and careers of fifty-two literary figures from the twelfth century to the late twentieth. All the contributors are recognized authorities. Some of their subjects, like Colette and George Sand, are celebrated, and others are just now gaining critical notice. From Christine de Pizan and Marguerite de Navarre to Rachilde and Häl_ne Cixous, from Louise Labe to Marguerite Duras?these women speak through the centuries to issues of gender, sexuality, and language. French Women Writers now becomes widely available in this Bison Book edition.