“Beneath the banal conversation, the apparently commonplace gestures, I wanted to show a world of paltry dramas, of petty obsessions, of mute tragedies.”

About Nathalie Sarraute

Author • French

Nathalie Sarraute was a Russian-born French writer and lawyer, who became a leading figure of the Nouveau Roman literary movement. She pioneered a new style of fiction that sought to capture pre-verbal psychological...