Sarraute, Nathalie <br/><br/>
Childhood 
/ Nathalie Sarraute ; translated by Barbara Wright in consultation with the author 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York  : G. Braziller  , 1984, c1983. 
 - 246 p.  ; 22 cm. 
<br/><br/> Translation of: Enfance. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0-8076-1085-2 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>83020864 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Novelists, French---20th century----Biography
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PQ2637.A783  / Z46413 1984 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>92 SAR