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Article: Nathalie Sarraute: Fiction and theory. Questions of difference. (Book review - French studies).
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- Journal of European Studies
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- June 1, 2001
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Nathalie Sarraute: Fiction and Theory. Questions of Difference. By Ann Jefferson. (Cambridge Studies in French, lxiv) Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. Pp. xiv + 214. [pounds sterling]37.50.
Much modern French thought has been preoccupied with the notion of an internal breach within the human subject, something -- or, rather, some void -- within me that prevents me from ever coinciding with myself. This is thematized very differently by different thinkers and writers: as Lacanian extimite, for example, or the permanent contestation of Bataille's inner experience; as the etrangete that keeps us, for Kristeva, always foreign to ourselves -- or even, more ...