Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory - Questions of Difference

A major study of one of France's most distinguished twentieth-century novelists and theorists, first published in 2000.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. Difference and Human Relations: 1. Difference and dissension; 2. Subjectivity and indistinction; 3. Abjection into art; Part II. The Body and Sexual Difference: 4. Minds, bodies and the new unanimism; 5. Sexual indifference; Part III. Genre and Difference: 6. Criticism and 'the terrible desire to establish contact'; 7. Same difference: reprise and variation; Conclusion: death and the impossible difference; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Summary

This 2000 book on Nathalie Sarraute (1900–99), one of France's most distinguished twentieth-century novelists, was the first major study in English to appear since her death. Ann Jefferson offers a new perspective on Sarraute's entire oeuvre - her fiction, her outstanding autobiography Enfance and her influential critical writings.

Product details

• Authors: Ann Jefferson
• Assisted by: Michael Sheringham (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.08.2011
• EAN: 9780521772112
• ISBN: 978-0-521-77211-2
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Weight: 533 g
• Series: Cambridge Studies in French
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Romance linguistics / literary studies