Further Reading
- Brodski, Bella. "Mothers, Displacement, and Language in the Autobiographies of Nathalie Sarraute and Christa Wolf." Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography, edited by Bella Brodzki and Celeste Schenck, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988, pp. 243-59. (Comparative analysis of the relationship between displacement and language in the autobiographies of Sarraute and Wolf.)
- Gratton, Johnnie. "Autobiography and Fragmentation: The Case of Nathalie Sarraute's Enfance." Nottingham French Studies 34, no. 2 (autumn 1995): 31-40. (Discusses fragmentation as a crucial feature of Sarraute's autobiography.)
- Gratton, Johnnie. "The Present Tense in Nathalie Sarraute's Enfance." French Studies Bulletin, no. 52 (autumn 1994): 15-7. (Examines the use of the present tense in Sarraute's text, noting that this technique provides the text with a sense of immediacy.)
- Jefferson, Ann. "Autobiography as Intertext: Barthes, Sarraute, Robbe-Grillet." Intertextuality: Theories and Practices, edited by Michael Worton and Judith Still, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990, pp. 108-29. (Discussion of Sarraute, Barthes, and Robbe-Grillet as autobiographers of the nouveau roman genre, a style of writing that was avowedly against authorial figures in texts.)
- Jefferson, Ann. "Nathalie Sarraute—Criticism and the ‘Terrible Desire to Establish Contact’." L'Esprit Createur 36, no. 2 (summer 1996): 44-62. (Looks at how criticism is defined as an activity within Sarraute's work, and its relationship to her novels, primarily focusing on the ideas she expresses in her L'Ere du soupçon.)
- Minogue, Valerie. "Against Terror: A Century in the Life of Nathalie Sarraute." Times Literary Supplement, no. 5040 (5 November 1999): 15-7. (A summary of Sarraute's life in the context of major events in the twentieth century.)
- Minogue, Valerie. "Nathalie Sarraute, Anti-Terrorist: A Reading of Dissent les imbeciles." L'Esprit Createur 36, no. 2 (summer 1996): 75-88. (Suggests that Dissent les imbeciles is a deeply complex and poetic novel, even though Sarraute uses simple language, with little abstract argument in the work.)
- Phillips, John. "Figures of the Feminine: Doll as Referent, Dolla as Metaphor in the Work of Nathalie Sarraute." Australian Journal of French Studies 31, no. 2 (May-August 1994): 200-14. (Studies the use of the image of the doll in Sarraute's works, noting that it is a metaphoric representation of inauthenticity or lack of freedom.)
- Shattuck, Roger. "The Voice of Nathalie Sarraute." French Review 68, no. 6 (May 1995): 955-63. (Draws a parallel between Sarraute's mistrust of the ability of language to convey the deepest of human emotions and how this is reflected in the way she reads her own texts.)
- Winchester, Teresa. "The Hansel and Gretel Motif in Sarraute's Le Planétarium." Romance Notes 32, no. 2 (winter 1991): 133-40. (Discusses the abundance of fairy tale imagery in Sarraute's works, specifically in Le Planétarium.)
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