Article: Partners in slime: the liquid and the viscous in Sarraute and Sartre.(Nathalie Sarraute)(Jean-Paul Sartre)(Critical Essay)

Nathalie Sarraute would not have appreciated this essay, because in it I propose to compare, as other critics have done in the past, her work with that of Jean-Paul Sartre. Sarraute's testiness about the nature of her intellectual relationship with Sartre simply "oozes" (in keeping with the theme of this essay) from the pages of a 1989 interview with Francoise Dupuy-Sullivan ("Dialogue avec Nathalie Sarraute") in which Sarraute describes her first contact with Sartre. At her publisher's suggestion, she says, she sent him a copy of her first text, Tropismes (1939). He responded to her with "un mot, tres gentil," telling her that the text interested him very much (188). She ...

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