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Nathalie SarrauteFrench novelist, critic and playwright.
Date of Birth: 18.07.1900
Country:  France |
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Biography of Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute was a French novelist, critic, and playwright. She was born on July 18, 1900, in Ivanovo-Voznesensk (now Ivanovo), Russia. After her parents' divorce, she lived alternately with her mother and father until the age of eight when she moved to Paris to live with her father.
She studied English literature at the Sorbonne, history at the University of Oxford, and sociology at the University of Berlin. After completing her law degree at the University of Paris in 1925, she was admitted to the Bar Association and worked as a lawyer in the courts until 1940.
Sarraute's name is often associated with the "nouveau roman" movement. In her first book, "Tropisms" (1939), she showed an interest in the realm of the subconscious and the subtle nuances of human emotions. Her next novel, "Portrait of an Unknown" (1948), received favorable reviews from Jean-Paul Sartre. Like her novels "Martereau" (1959) and "The Planetarium" (1959), it retained recognizable characters and deliberately banal plots.
Later, Sarraute explored the theme of artistic literature from both the perspective of the reader in "The Golden Fruits" (1964) and from the perspective of the author in "Between Life and Death" (1968). In her later works, particularly in the novel "They Say Stupid Things" (1976), recognizable characters and plots are completely absent. In 1983, she released the book "Childhood."
Sarraute also published critical essays on contemporary novel problems, which were compiled in the anthology "The Era of Suspicion" (1956). A collection of her numerous theater plays and radio plays was published separately under the title "Theater" (1978).
