Synopses & Reviews
Nathalie Sarraute, initially hailed as a leading theorist and exemplar of the nouveau roman, is now regarded as a major French novelist in her own right. Ann Jefferson offers a new perspective on Sarraute's entire oeuvre--her fiction, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings--by focusing on the crucial issue of difference that emerges as one of her central preoccupations. Jefferson explores Sarraute's fundamental ambivalence to differences of various kinds, including questions of gender and genre.
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"illuminating analysis." Choice
Review
"Specialists and those with only a casual acquaintance with the work of Nathalie Sarraute will find new, invaluable insights in Ann Jefferson's critical work..." SubStance"illuminating analysis." Choice
Synopsis
Major study of one of France's most distinguished twentieth-century novelists and theorists.
Synopsis
'This book on Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999), one of France\'s most distinguished twentieth-century novelists, is the first major study in English to appear since her death. Ann Jefferson offers a new perspective on Sarraute\'s entire oeuvre - her fiction, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings.\n
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Difference and Human Relations: 1. Difference and dissension; 2. Subjectivity and indistinction; 3. Abjection into art; Part II. The Body and Sexual Difference: 4. Minds, bodies and the new unanimism; 5. Sexual indifference; Part III. Genre and Difference: 6. Criticism and 'the terrible desire to establish contact'; 7. Same difference: reprise and variation; Conclusion: death and the impossible difference; Notes; Bibliography; Index.