TY - BOOK AU - Jefferson,Ann TI - Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between SN - 9780691197876 AV - PQ2637.A783 Z719 2021 U1 - 843.914 23 PY - 2020///] CY - Princeton, NJ PB - Princeton University Press KW - Authors, French KW - 20th century KW - Biography KW - Poets, French KW - Women poets, French KW - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary KW - bisacsh KW - 20th century French literature KW - Alain Robbe-Grillet KW - Between Life and Death KW - Camus KW - Childhood KW - Claude Simon KW - Enfance KW - Eugene Jolas KW - Existentialist Cafe KW - French writers KW - Golden Fruits KW - Hannah Arendt KW - Here KW - Marguerite Duras KW - Maria Jolas KW - Mary McCarthy KW - Michel Butor KW - Planetarium KW - Raymond Queneau KW - Sarah Bakewell KW - Tropismes KW - Use of Speech KW - Violette Leduc KW - You Don’t Love Yourself KW - existentialism KW - experimental novel KW - modernism KW - modernist writers KW - nouveau roman KW - postwar French writers KW - postwar novelists KW - postwar writers KW - twentieth century French literature KW - women writers N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface --; Acknowledgements --; Between Worlds, 1900–21 --; Chapter one. Russian Childhoods, 1900–05 --; Chapter two. Between Petersburg and Paris, 1905–11 --; Chapter three. Schooldays, 1912–18 --; Chapter four. England, 1919–21 --; Chapter five. Berlin, 1921–22 --; Chapter six. Pierre Janet’s Patient, 1922 --; Tentative Beginnings, 1922–44 --; Chapter seven. Independence, 1922–25 --; Chapter eight. Raymond --; Chapter nine. Coming of Age with Modernism, 1923–27 --; Chapter ten. Marriage and Motherhood, 1925–33 --; Chapter twelve. A Pause, 1935–37 --; Chapter thirteen. Publication, 1938–39 --; Chapter fourteen. Jewish by Decree, 1939–42 --; Chapter fifteen In Hiding, 1942–44 --; Ambivalent Allegiances, 1944–58 --; Chapter sixteen. Saint-Germain- des- Prés, 1944–47 --; Chapter seventeen. The Elephant’s Child, 1947–49 --; Chapter eighteen. New Horizons, 1949–53 --; Chapter nineteen. A Gallimard Author, 1953–56 --; Chapter twenty. The Nouveau Roman, 1956–59 --; Golden Fruits, 1959–70 --; Chapter twenty-one. “One of the Great Novelists of Our Time,” 1959–62 --; Chapter twenty-two. Nathalie Abroad, 1959–64 --; Chapter twenty-three. A Reading Public, 1963–66 --; Chapter twenty-four. Friendships --; Chapter twenty-five. “The Heroine of Post-Stalin Russia,” 1960–67 --; Chapter twenty-six. Radio Plays, 1962–72 --; Chapter twenty-seven. The Writing Life, 1964–68 --; Chapter twenty-eight. Revolution and May 68 --; Chapter twenty-nine. Israel, 1969 In --; Chapter thirty. The End and Afterlife of the Nouveau Roman, 1971–82 --; Chapter thirty-one. Plays on Stage, 1972–88 --; Chapter thirty-two. A Life and a Death, 1983–89 --; Chapter thirty-three. The Last Decade, 1990–99 --; Notes --; Bibliography --; INDEX; restricted access N2 - The definitive biography of a leading twentieth-century French writerA leading exponent of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute (1900–1999) was also one of France's most cosmopolitan literary figures, and her life was bound up with the intellectual and political ferment of twentieth-century Europe. Ann Jefferson's Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between is the authoritative biography of this major writer.Sarraute's life spanned a century and a continent. Born in tsarist Russia to Jewish parents, she was soon uprooted and brought to the city that became her lifelong home, Paris. This dislocation presaged a life marked by ambiguity and ambivalence. A stepchild in two families, a Russian émigré in Paris, a Jew in bourgeois French society, and a woman in a man’s literary world, Sarraute was educated at Oxford, Berlin, and the Sorbonne. She embarked on a career in law that was ended by the Nazi occupation of France, and she spent much of the war in hiding, under constant threat of exposure. Rising to literary eminence after the Liberation, she was initially associated with the existentialist circle of Beauvoir and Sartre, before becoming the principal theorist and practitioner of the avant-garde French novel of the 1950s and 1960s. Her tireless exploration of the deepest parts of our inner psychological life produced an oeuvre that remains daringly modern and resolutely unclassifiable.Nathalie Sarraute: A Life Between explores Sarraute's work and the intellectual, social, and political context from which it emerged. Drawing on newly available archival material and Sarraute's letters, this deeply researched biography is the definitive account of a life lived between countries, families, languages, literary movements, and more UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691201924?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691201924 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691201924/original ER -