Chekhov's Mistress

Sartre on Sarraute

by Bud Parr

There are blurbs and there are blurbs. Most make themselves worthless with hyperbole, but Sartre (along with Sontag) can say so much with a few words:

“The best thing about Nathalie Sarraute is her stumbling, groping style, with its honesty and numerous misgivings, a style that approaches the object with reverent precautions, withdraws from it suddenly out of a sort of modesty, or through timidity before its complexity, then, when all is said and done, suddenly presents us with the drooling monster, almost without having touched it, through the magic of an image.”

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Enchanting

    – Ryan (07/18  at  11:35 PM)


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