CRITICISM

Brodski, Bella. “Mothers, Displacement, and Language in the Autobiographies of Nathalie Sarraute and Christa Wolf.” In Life/Lines: Theorizing Women's Autobiography, edited by Bella Brodzki and Celeste Schenck, pp. 243-59. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1988.

Comparative analysis of the relationship between displacement and language in the autobiographies of Sarraute and Wolf.

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.

———. “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.

Jefferson, Ann. “Autobiography as Intertext: Barthes, Sarraute, Robbe-Grillet.” In Intertextuality: Theories and Practices, edited by Michael Worton and Judith Still, pp. 108-29. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990.

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.

———. “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. “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.

———. “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.

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.

Additional coverage of Sarraute's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction: Biography & Resources, Vol. 3; Contemporary Authors, Vols. 9-12R, 187; Contemporary Authors New Revision Series, Vols. 23, 66; Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vols. 1, 2, 4, 8, 10, 31, 80; Contemporary World Writers, Ed. 2; Dictionary of Literary Biography, Vol. 83; Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century, Ed. 3; European Writers, Vol. 12; Guide to French Literature: 1789 to the Present; Literature Resource Center; Major 20th-Century Writers, Eds. 1, 2; and Reference Guide to World Literature, Eds. 2, 3