SARRAUTE, NATHALIE


Meaning of SARRAUTE, NATHALIE in English

orig. Nathalie Ilyanova Tcherniak

born July 18, 1900, Ivanova, Russia

died Oct. 19, 1999, Paris, France

French novelist and essayist.

She practiced law until 0441; 1940, when she became a full-time writer. Tropismes (1939), a collection of sketches, introduced her idea of tropisms, the "things that are not said and the movements that cross our consciousness very rapidly." An early practitioner and leading theorist of the nouveau roman ("new novel"), the French antinovel , she discarded conventions of plot, chronology, characterization, and point of view. Her novels

including Portrait of a Man Unknown (1948), Martereau (1953), Le planétarium (1959), and Here (1997)

and her plays focus on the unspoken "subconversations" in human interactions.

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