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Article: Sarraute: 'Enfance'.(Nathalie Sarraute)(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- October 1, 2008
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Sarraute: 'Enfance.' By SHEILA M. BELL. (Glasgow Introductory Guides to French Literature, 54) Glasgow: University of Glasgow French and German Publications. 2007. iv+92 pp. 6 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 978-0-85261-830-1.
On its publication in 1983, Nathalie Sarraute' EEnfance was greeted with universal approval--some critics mistakenly seeing it as a belated surrender to convention on the part of the author, but all recognizing the charm of a work that captures the very texture and flavour of childhood. This short monograph by Sheila M. Bell offers an illuminating account of how, far from abandoning the concerns of her previous work, Sarraute continues to explore ...