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Childhood Paperback – March 15, 2013

by Nathalie Sarraute (Author), Barbara Wright (Translator)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
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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 search of her own intentions, more precise accuracy, and indeed, the truth. Her relationships with her mother in Russia and her stepmother in Paris are especially heartbreaking: long-gone actions are prodded and poked at by Sarraute until they yield some semblance of fact, imbuing these maternalistic interactions with new, deeper meaning. Each vignette is bristling with detail and shows the power of memory through prose by turns funny, sad, and poetic. Capturing the ambience of Paris and Russia in the earliest part of the twentieth century, while never giving up the lyrical style of Sarraute’s novels, this book has much to offer both memoir enthusiasts and fiction lovers.

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    246 pages
  2. Language
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  3. Publisher
    University of Chicago Press
  4. Publication date
    March 15, 2013
  5. Dimensions
    8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0226922316
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0226922317
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“Evoked with telescoping intensity, these scenes glow with the immediacy of time not recalled but relived.”
― Vanity Fair

“Childhood is a dialogue with memory, a merciless coaxing of memory into images and then into refractions of images, until memory is stripped of sentiment and becomes something close to sensation itself.” ― New Yorker

“In these beautifully paced pages the reader can watch a literary sensibility hunt persistently for that most ridiculed of literary prizes: the truth.” -- Roger Shattuck ― New York Times Book Review

“A book of great power, conviction, and passion.” ― New York Times

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Nathalie Sarraute (1900–99) was a French novelist, essayist, dramatist, and critic. Her works have been translated into more than thirty languages.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ University of Chicago Press; Reprint edition (March 15, 2013)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 246 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0226922316
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0226922317
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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An extraordinary book - blending an adult's reconstruction of the key relationships in her childhood and how that same adult's logic and reflection guide the memory. I read this book when it came out. And I missed its genius. I'm older now and more reflective myself, and can allow the brilliance of an old light to illuminate and play on the fields of my own formative past.
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I loved this book. Cruelty was subtly presented, a child’s perception of adult behavior presented so well.
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