Tropisms (New Directions Pearls)

Nathalie Sarraute's Tropisms is considered one of the defining texts of the nouveau roman movement. Tropisms was championed as a masterpiece by Jean Genet, Marguerite Duras, and Jean-Paul Sartre, who hailed Sarraute as his favorite "anti-novelist." Sarraute defined her Tropisms as the "movements that are hidden under the commonplace, seemingly harmless instances of our everyday lives." Like figures in a grainy and shadowy photo, the characters in Tropisms are barely defined, the narrative never developed beyond a stressed moment. Instead, Sarraute brilliantly highlights the shift in tone through remarks or subtle details when a relationship changes, when we fall slightly deeper into or begin to emerge out of love or trust, or when something innocent tilts by the smallest degree toward suspicion."

• | Author: Nathalie Sarraute
• | Publisher: New Directions
• | Publication Date: Nov 09, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 96 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0811222764
• | ISBN-13: 9780811222761