Childhood / Nathalie Sarraute ; translated by Barbara Wright in consultation with the author
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : G. Braziller , 1984, c1983.Edition: 1st edDescription: 246 p. ; 22 cmISBN:- 0-8076-1085-2
- Enfance . English
- 92 SAR
- PQ2637.A783 Z46413 1984
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Translation of: Enfance.
Images and moments from Nathalie Sarraute's early years are presented in chronological order but without any attempt to fill in the gaps that are naturally present when a mind looks back ten, twenty, thirty years. What emerges is still a story: the childhood of a young girl living in the first half of the twentieth century who divides her time between her divorced parents in Russia and France. By dismissing the need for a cohesive narrative, Nathalie Sarraute gives her memories immediacy. Her search for truth brings in a second voice that interrupts, testing, reassuring, prompting, creating a dialogue. Childhood puts the reader in a child's place as she relives the ritual of cutting open the pages of a book, the love for a favorite doll, the pain of intentional and unintentional slights, the joy of creating a first story, and the confusion of being passed back and forth between two different sets of parents.
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