Portrait of a Man Unknown

Name: Portrait of a Man Unknown
Author: Nathalie Sarraute

by Nathalie Sarraute

Experimental novel probing psychological subtext and hidden motivations beneath surface life

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Nathalie Sarraute

Russian-French novelist and essayist who co-founded the French New Novel with her examination of 'tropisms'—the tiny unconscious movements that underlie social interaction. The Age of Suspicion collected her theoretical essays on the novel. She was one of the most formally radical writers of the 20th century.

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