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Nathalie Sarraute

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...je le sens très bien,mais je ne sais pas l'exprimer...je n'ai à ma disposition que de pauvres mots complètement usés à force d'avoir servi à tous et à tout...


— Nathalie Sarraute


#inspirational

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.


— Nathalie Sarraute


#locked #seen #themselves #up #women

All psychological research is completely barred by the interpretations of the psychoanalysts. Everything happens in the unconscious, and I don't know what this unconscious is.


— Nathalie Sarraute


#completely #everything #happens #i #interpretations

I don't admire Freud as much as some people do. Imagine Shakespeare being aware of the Oedipal complex when he wrote Hamlet. It would have been a disaster.


— Nathalie Sarraute


#aware #been #being #complex #disaster

I have never sought the reason why I write.


— Nathalie Sarraute


#i write #never #reason #sought #why

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.


— Nathalie Sarraute


#carrying #dead #france #heard #how

It's the duty of all novelists, all painters, all musicians, all people who try to make art move: to look for something they feel authentically, without paying attention to styles.


— Nathalie Sarraute


#attention #duty #feel #look #make

Literature is always trying to show other parts of this immense universe in which we live. It's endless. I'm sure there will be other writers who will discover new worlds.


— Nathalie Sarraute


#discover #endless #i #immense #literature

It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.


— Nathalie Sarraute


#cannot #copy #copying #enter #good

One can't write without having read - you have to read before beginning to write - and universities offer a very good opportunity to read.


— Nathalie Sarraute


#beginning #good #good opportunity #having #offer






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Did you know about Nathalie Sarraute?

Agnés Varda dedicated her 1985 film Sans toit ni loit (Vagabonde) to her. Despite such high critical praise however the work only drew notice from literary insiders as did her follow-up Martereau. The issues with memory which Sarraute highlighted in her autobiography carried through to her last novel Here publiNathalie Sarrauted in 1995 in which the author explores a range of existential issues relating to the formlessness of both individual and social reality.

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