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Tropismes
Considered one of the major French writers of our century, Nathalie Sarraute is the author of several novels, plays, and essays, as well as of Childhood, her autobiography. A pioneer of the nouveau roman (or "new novel"), a literary movement that sought to free the novel from the confines of plot, characterization, and time, she was recently honored by the presentation of...more
Paperback, 140 pages
Published
October 1st 1986
by Editions de Minuit
(first published 1939)
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okay, nathalie sarraute is officially my new favorite writer. or at least one of them, i guess. she actually reminds me a lot of w.g. sebald, even though they are total opposites. sebald is all about thoughts and history and physical reality and individual lives and famous people, while sarraute is just all about internal movements, experiences and feelings-- but of a universal character. maybe it is because they both write in really long sentences, though sebald’s are razor-sharp and linear, wh...more
Jun 29, 2012
Marie
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Recommends it for:
french students
Recommended to Marie by:
Mademoiselle, my french teacher
Shelves:
en-fran-ais,
enjoyable
At the end of last spring semester, I asked Mademoiselle Weiner for book recommendations in French to read both over the summer and to supplement my next French classes (201 and 202, which I'm taking during the same semester because I say so and my academic advisor is silly). Tropismes is the second novel she recommended.
(The first was The Stranger, which I tried to read in English in high school and didn't finish, as I give less of a fuck about Meursault than Meursault gives about other people...more
(The first was The Stranger, which I tried to read in English in high school and didn't finish, as I give less of a fuck about Meursault than Meursault gives about other people...more
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Sarraute's first publication, consists of 24 pieces, one or three pages, critically examining a person, or persons, in the midst of everyday life, describing their inner thoughts, or state of being. Writing style is staccato bursts, maybe four words long, between the commas, many of them, say four or five per sentence. For me, this quickly grew tiresome, as I thought, though it might show promise, there's not enough there, there.
Despite her introduction, denying all links to the Nouveau Roman, this is exactly that, in one of its must minute forms. Much like prose poems. Gestures. Artifacts. Moments. BEautiful, though my heart still belongs to Duras in this type of book. PIcked up as she was an acquaintance of Simone de Beauvoir in the autobioagraphy I had read not long before.
Kirjan takakansi väittää tropismien olevan mestarillisia kuvauksia, mutta minuun ne eivät tehneet vaikutusta. Pieniä katkelmia, hetkiä ihmisten elämästä. Ei mitään erikoista.
It's all in the gaze ... although not completely. I felt as if the author puts herself in a somewhat intellectually superior position.
An exquisite collection of carefully written nuanced vignettes.
Well... it was short.
To me this reads like a diary and has the same effect...of more value to the writer than the reader. The author seems to admit as much in the intro though. May be of some academic interest when considered alongside later works.
Not quite what I was expecting, readable, but unengaging.
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Nathalie Sarraute (July 18, 1900 in Ivanovo, Russia – October 19, 1999 in Paris, France) was a lawyer and a French writer of Russian Jewish origin.
Sarraute was born Natalia/Natacha Tcherniak in Ivanovo (then known as Ivanovo-Voznesensk), 300 km north-east of Moscow in 1900 (although she frequently referred to the year of her birth as 1902, a date still cited in select reference works), and, follow...more
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Sarraute was born Natalia/Natacha Tcherniak in Ivanovo (then known as Ivanovo-Voznesensk), 300 km north-east of Moscow in 1900 (although she frequently referred to the year of her birth as 1902, a date still cited in select reference works), and, follow...more
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Jun 29, 2012 10:26pm