Title: Vous les entendez?
First published: 1972
Description: "The setting of Nathalie Sarraute's Do You Hear Them? is a dinner conversation between a father and his old friend about a recently acquired pre-Columbian statue. As they discuss the merits of the piece and art in general, the father hears his children upstairs, giggling. This mirth is barbaric and devastating to the father, for in their laughter he hears them mocking his "old fashioned" viewpoint and the energy he wastes on collecting lifeless objects. In his mind, they have no respect for what has been of greatest importance to him in his life."--Jacket.
Subjects: French language materials, Fiction, general, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Father and child, Fiction, Conflict of generations, Art, French fiction, Translations into English