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Do You Hear Them?

Do You Hear Them?( )
Author: Sarraute, Nathalie
Translator: Jolas, Maria
Series title:Coleman Dowell French Literature Ser.
ISBN:978-1-56478-329-5
Publication Date:Feb 2004
Publisher:Deep Vellum Publishing
Imprint:Dalkey Archive Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $12.95
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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 childish 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 by collecting lifeless objects. In his mind, they have...
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Book Details
Pages:147
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5 x 7.94 x 0.49 Inches
Book Weight:0.374 Pounds
Author Biography
Sarraute, Nathalie (Author)
Nathalie Sarraute has been an eloquent spokesperson and theorist of the new novel, as well as one of its most talented practitioners. In her essay on the art of fiction, The on The Age of Suspicion (1956), she condemned the techniques used in the novel of the past and took a stand beside Robbe-Grillet as a leader of the avant-garde. The novel, she feels, must express "that element of indetermination, of opacity, and mystery that one's own actions always have for the one who lives them." Her works have now become known to an international public. Her ability to render fleeting awareness and the psychological states underlying articulate speech has won both praise and disdain. Janet Flanner has called Sarraute "the only one among the New Novel experimenters who appears finally to have struck her own style---intense, observational, and personal." Of her novels, The Golden Fruits (1963)---about the Paris literary fortunes of an imaginary novel of the same name---is "the most barren of extraneous decor, the most accomplished from the standpoint of her esthetic aims" (SRSR). Tropisms (1939), her earliest (very brief) book, contains "all the raw material I have continued to develop in my later works." Her "tropisms," she says, are instinctive "sensations," or even "movements," "produced in us by the presence of others, or by objects from the outside world. [They hide] beneath the most commonplace conversations and the most everyday gestures." She regards her novels as composed of a series of tropisms of varying intensity.

Sarraute died at the age of 99 in Paris, France.

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