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Biography of Nathalie Tcherniak Sarraute
Name: Nathalie Tcherniak Sarraute
Birth Date: July 18, 1900
Death Date: October 19, 1999
Place of Birth: Ivanovo-Voznessensk, Russia
Nationality: French
Gender: Female
Occupations: author
Nathalie Tcherniak Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute (1900-1999) was one of the seminal figures in the emergence of France's "Nouveau Roman" ("New Novel") in the 1950s. Her work included not only novels but also plays and influential essays on literary theory.Nathalie Tcherniak was born in Ivanovo-Voznessensk, Russia, the daughter of a chemist father and a writer mother. The date of her birth was July 18, 1900, but at one point in her career, evidently wishing to cut some years from her age, she gave the year of her birth as 1902, a figure still found in some reference works.In 1902 her parents were divorced. She left Russia and lived with her mother in Paris, visiting her father for two months each year. In 1906 she and her mother returned to St. Petersburg; for the next two years she spent each summer with her father in France and Switzerland. In 1908 went to live with him and his second wife in …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…The Age of Suspicion "overpraised." His summary: "She is a serious but hardly an inventive or revolutionary novelist...," although he conceded that she had a "fine intellect."Sarraute died at her home in Paris on October 19, 1999. Further Reading The best biography in English was Nathalie Sarraute by Gretchen R. Besser (1979). There were mentions and/or analyses in The Contemporary French Novel by Henri Peyre (1955), French Novelists of Today by Peyre (1955), and The New Literature by Claude Mauriac (1959). Excerpts from her writing can be found in The French New Novel by Laurent LeSage (1962).Other works of critical analysis included Nathalie Sarraute (Collection Monographique Rodopi: En Literature Francaise Contemporaine Sous La Direction De Michael Biship, No 24 by Bettina Knapp (1994); Nathalie Sarraute: Metaphor, Fairy-Tale and the Feminine of the Text (Writing About Women Feminist Literary Studies, Vol 13 by John Phillips (1994); and Nathalie Sarraute and the Feminist Reader: Identities in Process by Sarah Barbour (1993).
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