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Article: Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
- Article date:
- July 1, 2001
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Nathalie Sarraute, Fiction and Theory: Questions of Difference. By ANN JEFFERSON. (Cambridge Studies in French, 64) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2000. xiii + 214 pp. 37.50 [pounds sterling].
Ann Jefferson here follows up her excellent work for the Pleiade OEuvres completes with a study of Nathalie Sarraute's treatment of difference, not as a theme of theory, but as a constant preoccupation in her work. From a broad critical base embracing linguistics, anthropology, literary and feminist theory, Jefferson explores the paradoxes of a writing that demands recognition of its difference, but seeks to erase difference through identification with the reader in the ...