Nathalie Sarraute
Birth date: July 18, 1900
Died: October 19, 1999
Nathalie Sarraute's Books
I really enjoyed this one. I studied two extracts from it in school in France, and when I found it on a flea market in Oslo I just had to buy it, even though those extracts hadn't really interested me *that* much. I do think Sarraute will join the group of favourite French authors, and I have to rea...
i have to admit i was disappointed not to like this book as much as i enjoyed portrait of man unknown, but i could tell i would not, right away, as i became deeply involved in the first work, and finished in a day, but i stopped after the first battle over the easy chairs and had difficulty picking ...
if i could give half stars, i'd go with three and a half. her style, even in translation, is really interesting, hard to get used to, a little difficult to navigate. to me this novel seemed, for a long time, to be simply another take on the reality/appearance binary. but then i decided that wasn't...
"Some of these unfortunate creatures, perhaps vaguely conscious that something oozes from them, themselves assume an inscrutable, rigid expression, with all exits blocked, as though to keep these mysterious effluvia from escaping; or perhaps it is in a spirit of imitation, the result of suggestion -...
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