Nathalie Sarraute

Sarraute, Nathalie - nätälēˈ särōtˈ, 1900–1999, French novelist, b. Ivanovo, Russia, as Natasha Tcherniak; studied at the Sorbonne and Oxford Univ. A lawyer, she joined (1925) a Paris firm. She began writing in the early 1930s. Stark and revolutionary in technique, Sarraute's nouveaux romans [new novels] Tropismes (1939, tr Read More...

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Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference
by Ann Jefferson. 216 pgs.

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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.

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Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part 1: Difference and Human Relations

Chapter One: Difference and Dissension

Chapter Two: Subjectivity and Indistinction

Chapter Three: Abjection into Art

Part II: The Body and Sexual Difference

Chapter Four: Minds, Bodies and the New Unanimism

Chapter Five: Sexual Indifference

Part III: Genre and Difference

Chapter Six: Criticism and 'the Terrible Desire to Establish Contact'

Chapter Seven: Same Difference: Reprise and Variation

Part IV: Conclusion

Conclusion: Death and the Impossible Difference

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Reading Nathalie Sarraute: Dialogue and Distance
by Emer O'Beirne. 266 pgs.

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Spanning seven decades, Nathalie Sarraute's literary career has established her as one of the most prominent and highly respected French writers of the twentieth century. From the outset she has sought, through consistent formal innovation, to develop a mode of literary expression adequate to an endlessly mobile and mutable self stifled as much in public discourse as in traditional fictional characterization. Central to that enterprise is the dream of full and transparent communication with another, and ultimately with an ideal reader. This study is the first to explore in detail the interaction between the increasing move towards dialogue in Sarraute's prose works (Tu ne t'aimes pas is an extreme example), and the dialogue those works initiate with their readers. Intensely aware of the pitfalls of communication, both spoken and written, Sarraute's prose writings illuminate not only the dynamics of conversation, but also those of the reading process.

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1 Irony, Dialogue, and the Novel

2 The Writing Self: Irony And Authority

3 The Self and Language: Authenticity and Convention

4 Reading and Otherness

5 Reading in Theory and Practice

Conclusion Ici-From Language to Silence And Back

Bibliography

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The Age of Suspicion: Essays on the Novel
by Nathalie Sarraute, Maria Jolas. 152 pgs.

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From Dostoievski To Rafka

The Age Of Suspicion

Conversation And Sub-Conversation

What Birds See
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The French New Autobiographies: Sarraute, Duras, and Robbe Grillet
by Raylene L. Ramsay. 263 pgs.

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Foreword

Acknowledgments

Introduction

One New Autobiographies for Old?

Two the Art of the Impossible

Three Rewriting History, Story, Self

Alain Robbe-Grillet

Four the Second World War as History and Story, Text and Pre-Text, Order and Chaos in Le Miroir Qui Revient

Five the Angel in Robbe-Grillet's Mirror Writing, Power, and the Feminine in Angélique Ou L'enchantement and Les Derniers Jours Do Corinthe

Nathalie Surraute

Six Voice(s) in Nathalie Sarraute's Enfance and the Sex of the Text

Seven Them and Us Between Intersubjectivity and Intrasubjectivity in Sarraute's Tu Ne T'aimes Pas

Marguerite Duras

Eight Through a Textual Glass, Darkly the Masochistic in the Feminine Self in Marguerite Duras' Emily L.

Nine (re)writing Power in Duras' L'amant De La Chine Du Nord

Afterword

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index
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Partners in Slime: The Liquid and the Viscous in Sarraute and Sartre, in The Romanic Review
by Jennifer Willging. 19 pgs.
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Women in Twentieth-Century Literature: A Jungian View (Chap. 7 "Nathalie Sarraute's Between Life and Death: Androgyny and the Creative Process")
by Bettina L. Knapp. 249 pgs.

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Introduction

1: Federico García Lorca's Yerma: A Woman's Mystery

2: Elizabeth Bowen's Death of the Heart: The Teenage Archetype

3: Isak Dinesen's Peter and Rosa": An Alchemical Transfiguration from Fixatio to Solutio"

4: Natalia Ginzburg's All Our Yesterdays: The Introverted Cocotte and the Insect

5: Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge": Sacrifice, a Castration"

6: Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea: Mother/Daughter Identification and Alienation

7: Nathalie Sarraute's Between Life and Death: Androgyny and the Creative Process

8: Pa Chin's Family: The Patriarchate Dismembered

9: Fumiko Enchi's Masks: A Sacred Mystery

10: Ani.Ta Desai's Fire on the Mountain: A Rite of Exit

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index
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Rhetoric: Readings in French Literature ("Domestic Rhetoric in Nathalie Sarraute's Le Planetarium" begins on p. 151)
by Michael Hawcroft. 270 pgs.

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Rhetoric is the art of persuasion, whether spoken or written. In the first chapter of Rhetoric: Readings in French Literature, Michael Hawcroft sets out its principles comprehensively and lucidly, providing an easily-consulted outline of key terms and a wide range of illustrative examples. Subsequent chapters explore rhetoric at work in different genres, via close reading of texts which range from the drama of Molière, Racine, and Beckett; Montaigne, Sévigné, and Gide on the self; the prose fiction of Laclos, Zola, and Sarraute; poetry by D'Aubigné, Baudelaire, and Césaire; and the oratory of de Gaulle and Yourcenar. Rhetorical analysis uncovers subtleties and complexities in texts which emerge as exciting dramas of communication. This is at once a handbook of rhetoric and a guide to its application to French texts from the sixteenth century to the present.

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Introduction

I: Rhetorical Theory: A Practical Guide

2: Oratory

3: Drama

4: Prose Fiction

5: Poetry

6: The Self

Conclusion

Appendix: Outline of Chapter 1

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Index of Rhetorical Terms

Index of Names and Works
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French Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook (1991) ("Nathalie Sarraute (1900-)" begins on p. 412)
by Eva Martin Sartori, Dorothy Wynne Zimmerman. 632 pgs.

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Fifty-one essays cover the lives and works of the most important women writers in the history of French literature with an emphasis on their experiences as writers, a discussion of their major themes, and brief surveys of critical reactions. Each essay is followed by a bibliography of primary works, a list of titles translated into English, and a selection of critical studies. An additional essay describes the trobairitz, the women troubadours of the 12th and 13th centuries. The volume ends with a chronology featuring the dates of events and trends of special significance to French women.

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French Women Writers: A Bio-Bibliographical Source Book

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Marie D'Agoult (1805-1876)

Marie-Catherine le Jumel de Barneville, Comtesse D'Aulnoy (1650/51-1705)

Simone de Beauvoir (1908-1986)

Isabelle de Charriere (1740-1805)

AnorÉe Chedid (1920-)

Christine de Pizan (c. 1365-C. 1430)

Helene Cixous (1937-)

Colette (1873-1954)

Sophie Cottin (1770-1807)

HÉlisenne de Crenne (c. 1510-C. 1560)

Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874-1945)

Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786-1859)

Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise Du Deffand (1697-1780)

Pernette Du Guillet (1520?-1545)

Claire de Duras (1777-1828)

Marguerite Duras (1914-)

Judith Gautier (1845-1917)

StÉphanie-FÉlicitÉ, Comtesse de Genlis (1746-1830)

Delphine Gay de Girardin (1804-1855)

Marie le Jars de Gournay (1565-1645)

FranÇoise D'Issembourg D'Happoncourt de Graffigny (1695-1758)

BenoÎte Groult (1920-)

Luce Irigaray (193?-)

Julia Kristeva (1941-)

Juliane Von KrÜdener (1764-1824)

Louise LabÉ (c. 1520-1566)

Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, Comtesse de Lafayette (1634-1693)

Violette Leduc (1907-1972)

Julie de Lespinasse (1732-1776)

FranÇoise Mallet-Joris (1930-)

Marguerite de Navarre (1492-1549)

Marie de France (fl. 1160-1178)

Anna de Noailles (1876-1933)

Rachilde (1860-1953)

Marie Jeanne Riccoboni (1713-1792)

Christiane Rochefort (1917-)

Marie Jeanne Phlipon (manon) Roland de la PlatiÈre (1754-1793)

FranÇoise Sagan (1935-)

George Sand (1804-1876)

Nathalie Sarraute (1900-)

Albertine Sarrazin (1937-1967)

Madeleine de Scudery (1607-1701)

Sophie Rostopchine, Comtesse de Segur (1799-1874)

Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, Marquise de SÉvignÉ (1626-1696)

Germaine Necker, Baronne de Stael (1766-1817)

Claudine-Alexandrine Guerin de Tencin (1682-1749)

Flora Tristan (1803-1844)

The Trobairitz (c. 1170-1260)

Marie-Catherine Desjardins de Villedieu (1640?-1683)

Simone Weil (1909-1943)

Monique Wittig (1935-)

Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987)

Appendix A: Situating Women Writers in French History: a Chronology

Appendix B: List of Authors by Date of Birth

Title Index

Subject Index

Contributors
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The Feminist Encyclopedia of French Literature (1999) ("Sarraute, Nathalie (1900-)" begins on p. 500)
by Perry Gethner, Susan Ireland, Juliette Parnell-Smith, Patrice J. Proulx, Mary Rice-DeFosse, Eva Martin Sartori, Samia I. Spencer, Colette H. Winn. 638 pgs.

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The earliest known literary productions by women living in Europe were probably by French writers. French women have contributed enormously to world literature for centuries, but only a few have been judged worthy of recognition by mostly male critics. As part of the feminist move to reclaim women writers and to rethink literary history, scholars have given growing amounts of attention to French women writers and their substantial contribution. This reference book provides extensive information about French women writers and the world in which they lived. Included are several hundred alphabetically arranged entries for authors, genres, literary movements, institutions, events, and organizations related to French literature. Each entry summarizes feminist thought on the topic, and provides bibliographical information. The volume begins with a feminist history of French literature and concludes with a selected bibliography and a chronological list of French women writers.

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A Feminist History of French Literature

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Appendix A: General Bibliography

Appendix B: Chronology of French Women Writers

Index

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