Childhood
By: Nathalie Sarraute ; translated by Barbara Wright in consultation with the author ; with a new foreword by Alice Kaplan
Contributors: Kaplan, Alice Yaeger
Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Chicago; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780226922317; 9780226922324
Subjects: Childhood and youth; Biography; French Novelists
Work titles: Enfance
Description: As one of the leading proponents of the nouveau roman, Nathalie Sarraute is often remembered for her novels, including The Golden Fruits, which earned her the Prix international de litterature in 1964. But her carefully crafted and evocative memoir Childhood may in fact be Sarraute's most accessible and emotionally open work. Written when the author was eighty-three years old, but dealing with only the first twelve years of her life, Childhood is constructed as a dialogue between Sarraute and her memory. Sarraute gently interrogates her interlocutor in sea.