Nathalie Sarraute (eBook)

A Life Between

Ann Jefferson (Autor)

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2020
448 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20192-4 (ISBN)

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The definitive biography of a leading twentieth-century French writerA leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) was also one of France's most cosmopolitan literary figures, and her life was bound up with the intellectual and political ferment of twentieth-century Europe. Ann Jefferson's Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between is the authoritative biography of this major writer.Sarraute's life spanned a century and a continent. Born in tsarist Russia to Jewish parents, she was soon uprooted and brought to the city that became her lifelong home, Paris. This dislocation presaged a life marked by ambiguity and ambivalence. A stepchild in two families, a Russian emigre in Paris, a Jew in bourgeois French society, and a woman in a man's literary world, Sarraute was educated at Oxford, Berlin, and the Sorbonne. She embarked on a career in law that was ended by the Nazi occupation of France, and she spent much of the war in hiding, under constant threat of exposure. Rising to literary eminence after the Liberation, she was initially associated with the existentialist circle of Beauvoir and Sartre, before becoming the principal theorist and practitioner of the avant-garde French novel of the 1950s and 1960s. Her tireless exploration of the deepest parts of our inner psychological life produced an oeuvre that remains daringly modern and resolutely unclassifiable.Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between explores Sarraute's work and the intellectual, social, and political context from which it emerged. Drawing on newly available archival material and Sarraute's letters, this deeply researched biography is the definitive account of a life lived between countries, families, languages, literary movements, and more.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.7.2020
• Zusatzinfo: 27 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: 20th century French literature • Admiration • Alain Robbe-Grillet • Algerian war • Anecdote • Arrondissement • Autobiography • Between Life and Death • Boulevard Raspail • Camus • Career • Childhood • Claude Mauriac • Claude Simon • Deportation • Dictatorship • doctorate • Dora Maar • Elsa Triolet • Enfance • English literature • Eugene Jolas • Existentialism • existentialist cafe • experimental novel • exploration • femininity • Francis Ponge • French Literature • French nationality law • french writers • George Sand • Georges Bataille • Gestapo • Golden Fruits • Hannah Arendt • Here • His Family • Ivy Compton-Burnett • Jean Giraudoux • Jean-Louis Barrault • Jean Paulhan • Jean-Paul Sartre • Jews • Kibbutz • kolya • lawyer • Lecture • Les Temps modernes • Literary criticism • literary editor • Literature • Louis Aragon • Manifesto of the 121 • Manuscript • Marguerite Duras • Marguerite Yourcenar • Maria Jolas • Mary McCarthy • Maurice Blanchot • Memoir • Mercure de France • Michel Butor • modernism • modernist writers • Modernity • Monique Wittig • Mrs Dalloway • narrative • nathalie • Nathalie Sarraute • New Generation (Malayalam film movement) • newspaper • north vietnam • Nouveau Roman • Novel • novelist • Paperback • Pasternak • Philosopher • P. J. Conkwright • Planetarium • Playwright • Poetry • postwar French writers • postwar novelists • postwar writers • preface • Prose • Psychoanalysis • Psychology • Publication • Publishing • radio drama • Rainer Maria Rilke • Raymond Queneau • Robert Pinget • Russian Literature • russians • Sarah Bakewell • secondary education • Shakespeare and Company (bookstore) • Simone de Beauvoir • Sonia Orwell • Soviet Union • Surrealism • Sylvia Beach • Symptom • Tel Quel • theatre director • the mandarins • The New York Review of Books • Tristan Tzara • tropismes • twentieth century French literature • two women • Union of Soviet Writers • Use of Speech • Violette LeDuc • Virginia Woolf • Vladimir Nabokov • Women Writers • Woolf • Writer • Writing • yakov • year • You Don’t Love Yourself
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20192-7 / 0691201927
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20192-4 / 9780691201924