Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute · Arts & Literature
French novelist and pioneer of the nouveau roman ('Tropisms')
1900, Ivanovo, Russia — 1999, Paris, France
Russia · France
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Nathalie Sarraute was a Russian-born French novelist and essayist, a pioneer of the nouveau roman, whose 'Tropisms' (1939) probed the fleeting inner impulses beneath speech and social interaction. Her experimental style reshaped mid-century French fiction. She was Jewish, born to a Russian-Jewish family, and lived in hiding in occupied France during World War II.
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French novelist and pioneer of the nouveau roman ('Tropisms')
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