Childhood

Nathalie Sarraute

1983

Adèle sometimes used to take me to church in Montrouge, where I made the same gestures as she did…gestures which didn’t seem to me to be very different from those required by pure politeness…the hand rapidly dipped into the font, the automatic sign of the cross, the perfunctory genuflexion as you passed the altar…she would have been very shocked if…

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Nathalie Sarraute

1900–1999

Russian-born Nathalie Sarraute, who lived most of her life in France, was a writer of novels, plays, and essays on literary theory. She was a major theorist for the French “New Novel” movement, and received the Formentor Prize, the Prix Internationale de Litterature, the Grand Prix National, and the Prix Cavour.

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