Reading Nathalie Sarraute Dialogue and Distance [Hardcover]

Nathalie Sarraute is one of the most prominent French writers of the twentieth century. This study explores the evolution of Sarraute's prose writings from intense concern with shaping the response of their readers, to the more recent withdrawal of the authorial voice into self-sufficient internal dialogue. Emer O'Beirne considers the growing disillusionment with the reader reflected in Sarraute's work.

Introduction
1. Irony, Dialogue, and the Novel
2. The Writing Self: Irony and Authority
3. The Self and Language: Authenticity and Convention
4. Reading and Otherness
5. Reading in Theory and Practice
Conclusion: Ici - From Language to Silence and Back
Notes
Bibliography
Index