Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory
Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory Nathalie Sarraute (1900–99) is regarded as one of the major French novelists of the twentieth century. In this major 2000 study of Sarraute, the first in English…
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Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory
Nathalie Sarraute (1900–99) is regarded as one of the major French novelists of the twentieth century. 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. 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.
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. Drawing on a variety of critical approaches, Jefferson explores Sarraute's fundamental ambivalence to differences of various kinds including questions of gender and genre.
Enfance Sarraute
Theory and Credibility
Theory and Reality
Mimesis and Theory