Sarraute, Nathalie

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Enfance (Folio)
Nathalie Sarraute
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Madame Sarraute tells us the mystery of memory.

Childhood
Nathalie Sarraute
Manufacturer: George Braziller
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Madame Sarraute tells us the mystery of memory........1997-09-08

Madame Sarraute, who is in the twilight of her distinguished career, writes not of memories of her childhood, but rather of memory itself. Read this not to learn of her childhood memories, but to hear her teach us what are the building blocks of memory. What is it that causes us to remember one event, and not another? Why is one memory so attached to others? Why do we care about the memory more than the event? Sarraute knows, and tells us. This book is not for cowards. Or youth. Since she has taught us about memory, we cannot help but use those lessons to explore our own. Perhaps then, the book is really not about Madame Sarraute's childhood, but our own.

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The start of greater things
Tropisms?
Tropisms-- the ingredients of character

Tropisms
Nathalie Sarraute
Manufacturer: George Braziller
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The start of greater things.......2000-12-08

Tropisms are, as the author says, movements of the mind... movements most of us are not aware of, even though they are insepperable from human existance. This book is an attempt to express on paper what these tropisms look like, in short episodes of no more that two or three pages.

For people interested in new forms of expression or thinking about writing, this may be a place to start. For those who want to read something unlike most of the stories they encounter from day to day, this will be it.

Tropisms?.......2000-05-14

What on Earth are tropisms? Is there a cure? But don't ask me; read the cover blurb, which provides one definition: they're "moments and movements in time, delicate and precise intimations of what may be going on inside an individual or a family group, but all of them freed from the confines of plot, characterization, and time." At any rate, this brief (71 pages) volume is made up of a series of twenty-four delicately wrought prose sketches, or short-short stories, if you will. As an experiment in prose, it's fairly interesting--thanks largely to Sarraute's appealingly limpid style--but really nothing to get excited about.

Tropisms-- the ingredients of character.......1999-12-17

A fascinating book for any writer or student of language. Tropisms doesn't tell a story so much as paint a scene and/or communicate feeling. Sarraute's language --originally written in the late 1930's-- for the most part still feels modern and fresh, in part due to her unconventional and brave writing style. Tropisms is a thin book I carry with me in my daytime planner and read over and over again. Sarraute's ability to clearly describe the most mundane actions and feelings is an excellent training ground for writers. I learn something new about words, language, and humanity every time I open this book.

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The trailing off gets old
An intriguing little read
experiment in the practice of writing vs. enjoyable read

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Manufacturer: Dalkey Archive Press
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The trailing off gets old.......2006-10-25

I haven't gotten very far into this book...it's like...it's really hard to get into...I'm not sure why...I want to like it...I've heard good things...about the...writer...

This is how ellipses are used in this book. To distraction. Throughout the whole thing. I tried to look past it or get over it, but I couldn't.

I tried reading it straight through and couldn't, so then I flipped through and read whatever fragments of pages caught my eye. I could tell by doing this that Sarraute has interesting ideas in this book, and that her way of telling a story from a psychological standpoint is admirable, but it was like trying to talk to someone who trails off mid-sentence, every sentence. Even if they were the most fascinating person alive, I wouldn't be able to talk to them because it would bug me.

Maybe everyone who likes this book is a bigger person than I. I hope for poor dead Sarraute's sake that most readers are. That's why it's 3 stars instead of 2 or 1. I can tell if I were a more patient person and could stand the over-over-over use of ellipses for 250 pages straight, this book would be interesting.

An intriguing little read.......2006-05-23

Nathalie Sarraute isn't quite as eccentric and daring as I'd been led to believe before I got around to reading her. In fact her subject matter is decidedly traditional - it's just her approach that's so unusual. She discusses ordinary scenarios of human life - here, the life of a young man, his wife and his aunt - in terms of pure psychology, not of narrative.

The effect is that dialogue blends with stream-of-consciousness in a compelling flow. There's little traditional characterization; rather, Sarraute illustrates her characters solely through what they say and think. I don't know whether she intended literary revolution in works such as this, but it's inarguable that she does something fascinating and new here. Highly recommended.

experiment in the practice of writing vs. enjoyable read.......2002-05-15

sarraute's contribution it the nouveau roman and the radicalisaton of the traditional novel is beyond question, what is doubtful is whether such formal experimantation is conducive to enjoyment of the book as entertainment. interesting but dry

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amazing

Portrait of a Man Unknown
Nathalie Sarraute
Manufacturer: George Braziller
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ASIN: 0807612529

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In this major work of avant-garde literature, first published by Braziller in 1958, Nathalie Sarraute probes deeply into the nature of human relationships through her depiction of an elderly father and his spinster daughter. In his preface to Portrait of a Man Unknown, Jean-Paul Sartre applauded Sarraute for writing an "anti-novel," one that resists the traditional premises of plot and character. The narrator, a neurotic neighbor obsessed with the pair, shows the persistence of a sleuth, taking every opportunity to snoop and eavesdrop. He follows the couple's every step, awaiting the final explosion: the ultimate confrontation between the two characters over money necessary for the daughter's medical needs.

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amazing.......2000-01-04

sarraute has an amazing ability with language. this novel addresses the most subtle and essential aspects of existing as a human being in a world with other human beings and the language she uses captures it dead-on. the existential self and its relationship to its context are explored with almost painful precision. amazing. open to any page and you will see your existence described in such exactitude you never thought possible through human words.

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Le Planetarium
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Nathalie Sarraute
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You Don't Love Yourself is a mature work by a unique writer

You Don't Love Yourself
Nathalie Sarraute
Manufacturer: George Braziller
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ASIN: 0807612545

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The point of interest in Sarraute's latest novel, You Don't Love Yourself, is not in the action or conversation, but rather in that underlying, unconscious, and somewhat secret dialogue we hold with ourselves. Refusing to assign names or identities to her characters, Sarraute presents the narrator and his/her conscience as one immense profusion of sentiments, sensations and impulses. The dialogue, full of hesitations, affirmations and disputes, presents tantalizing ambiguity as to who is speaking and to whom. With her usual imaginative zest, Sarraute describes the characteristic clumsy starts and thrusts that accompany our desperate efforts to make contact with others. In her endeavors to present human character as accurately as possible, Sarraute investigates the doubting, vacillating unconscious that is the root of all superficial actions and reactions. Her characters' murmuring voices echo our own thought processes and lead us to the inevitable self-examination that makes this book both eye-opening and unforgettable.

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You Don't Love Yourself is a mature work by a unique writer.......1997-06-23

You Don't Love Yourself is a mature work by Nathalie Sarraute, a unique writer who has perceptively explored the universal drama of the inner self since her first book, Tropisms. If there is a conversation in a novel by Nathalie Sarraute, it is more than likely a dialog between two conflicting points of view, voiced by unnamed disembodied advocates for the unnamed conflicted feelings. So, before you open one of her books, give up a few preconceived notions. There may be the loosest elements of a plot, but it's more likely that you'll be told only what you need to know about the matter at hand. Instead, you'll be privy to the always turbulent action of the human mind as it weighs its options and decides how to feel. Nathalie Sarraute composes a musical arrangement of pleading, sarcastic, ironic, humble and childlike voices (to name a few) that seem to float in and out of an echo chamber of consciousness. The conversations, which are full of suggestive fragments and hesitations, don't offer the standard satisfactions of novels built on plot and the description of characters. You Don't Love Yourself probes much deeper into the nature of character by providing a virtual reality ride through the range of human reactions and fears. The novel and its title refer to the facade of perfection and self-esteem that some people wear and others perceive, consciously or unconsciously in both cases, in the social sphere. An overly simple explanation of the book would say that it explores insecurity. But, with a style that horror novelists might want to study, Nathalie Sarraute's latest novel offers insecurity to her readers like a hidden contagion in the pages of the book. Give in to its utter truth and humor, if you dare

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Tropismes
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Les Fruits d'or
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