But her carefully crafted and evocative memoirchildhood may in fact be sarraute s most accessible and emotionally open work. The argument surrounding its genre as autobiography or fiction is debatable and has been ongoing for sometime. I had studied an excerpt of enfance by nathalie sarraute when i was in high school and i remembered being impressed by her style and her hesitations about writing an autobiographical work. Questionnaires eaf 2020, sarraute, enfance, lautobiographie. En 1983, nathalie sarraute publie son autobiographie, enfance. It makes unusually good sense to say of nathalie sarraute, who has died aged 99, that she was a writer of the 20th century, for her own life was just about coterminous with it. Jeanlouis barrault monte en 1967 le silence et le mensonge. The only way to address this point in question is to first define an autobiography, to analyse the factors that constitute an. Written when the author was eightythree years old, but. A russian jew by birth, french by education and european by culture, nathalie sarraute was always intensely aware of and resistant to the reductive powers of categorizing language. I bought the book years ago and finally just read it more than 10 years after discovering it.
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