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100	1		_aSarraute, Nathalie
240	1	0	_aEnfance _l. English
245	1	0	_aChildhood _c/ Nathalie Sarraute ; translated by Barbara Wright in consultation with the author
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York _b: G. Braziller _c, 1984, c1983.
300			_a246 p. _c; 22 cm.
500			_aTranslation of: Enfance.
520			_aImages 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.
650		4	_aNovelists, French _y-20th century _v--Biography
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