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Nathalie Sarraute
Nathalie Sarraute , 1900-1999, French novelist, b. Ivanovo, Russia, as Natasha Tcherniak; studied at the Sorbonne and Oxford. A lawyer, she joined (1925) a Paris firm. She began writing in the early 1930s. Stark and revolutionary in technique, Sarraute's nouveaux romans [new novels] Tropismes ... Read more |
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Francois-Noel Babeuf
François Noel Babeuf The French political revolutionist and writer Fran Read more |
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Charles Nicolas Cochin
Charles Nicolas Cochin , 1715-90, French engraver, designer, writer on art, and painter to the French court. His works, more than 1,500 in number, include historical subjects, such as the Marriage of the Dauphin, vignettes and frontispieces, book illustrations, and pencil and crayon portraits.... Read more |
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Terence Rattigan
RATTIGAN, (Sir) Terence Writer. Nationality:British. Born:London, 10 June 1911. Education:Attended Harrow School and Oxford University. Career:Playwright; first play, French without Tears, also screenplay. Awards:CBE, 1958; Knight Bachelor, 1971.... Read more |
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Albert Leon Gleizes
Albert Léon Gleizes , 1881-1953, French cubist painter, illustrator, and writer. He was among the outstanding cubists in the Salon des Indépendants of 1911. Gleizes employed a rich palette in contrast to the essentially monochromatic effects of Braque and Picasso, and his work remained... Read more |
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Johan Ludvig Heiberg
Johan Ludvig Heiberg , 1791-1860, Danish writer, director of the National Theater. In the play Christmas Fun and New Year's Jesting (1817), he satirized leading contemporary writers. As a defender of classical drama, Heiberg became an influential figure in Danish literature and criticism. He... Read more |
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Lyrical Abstraction
Lyrical Abstraction. A rather vague term, used differently by different writers, applied to a type of expressive but non-violent abstract painting flourishing particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, chiefly in France; the term seems to have been coined by the French painter Georges Mathieu, who spoke... Read more |
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Fanny Fern (American writer)
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Sir James Mackintosh
Sir James Mackintosh 1765-1832, British writer and public servant, b. Scotland. He was trained as a physician, but after settling (1788) in London he became a writer and lawyer. His Vindiciae Gallicae (1791), a spirited reply to Edmund Burke's Reflections on the French Revolution, was the... Read more |
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nouveau roman
...applied to the work of a wide range of modern French novelists, including Nathalie Sarraute (1902– ), Claude Simon (1913– ), Marguerite...and Michel Butor (1926– ). These writers reacted against the illusion of order in the traditional... |
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Nathalie Sarraute: Fiction and theory. Questions of difference. (Book review...
Nathalie Sarraute: Fiction and...Studies in French, lxiv) Cambridge...Much modern French thought has...thinkers and writers: as Lacanian...extent to which Nathalie Sarraute, beyond her...edition of ... |
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Obituary: Nathalie Sarraute
NATHALIE SARRAUTE was for many...contemporary French writers. Her...married Raymond Sarraute, also a lawyer...insecurities. Sarraute fictions are...something to English writers such as Virginia...conversation, ... |
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Sarraute: 'Enfance'.(Nathalie Sarraute)(Book review)
Sarraute: 'Enfance.' By...Introductory Guides to French Literature, 54...University of Glasgow French and German Publications...publication in 1983, Nathalie Sarraute' EEnfance was greeted...autonomy, just as the writer also ... |
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TERRITORIALITY DISPUTES, POLLUTION AND ABJECTION IN NATHALIE SARRAUTE AND...
...of contemporary French fiction that have...the question of Nathalie Sarraute's literary legacy...subsequent generations of writers. Of the very few...alongside that of Sarraute, Hélène Lenoir is...the contemporary French ... |
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Territoriality disputes, pollution and abjection in Nathalie Sarraute and...
...of contemporary French fiction that have...the question of Nathalie Sarraute's literary legacy...subsequent generations of writers. Of the very few...alongside that of Sarraute, Helene Lenoir...the contemporary French ... |
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Literary Necrology 1999.
...American short-story writer and novelist, San Francisco...Emile Copfermann, French novelist and editor...age 94. Daniel Oster, French novelist and essayist...19 March, age 73. Nathalie Sarraute, French novelist, Paris, 19... |
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Deaths elsewhere
...Durden worked with Nashville legends like Johnny Cash and touring with Tex Ritter. Nathalie Sarraute Nathalie Sarraute, the internationally known French writer who pioneered the "New Novel" movement that downplayed plot, ... |
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A not to be forgotten novel about memory.(Books)(On Books)
The Russian-born French novelist Nathalie Sarraute's first published...to characterize the writer's work. Novels such...established Mrs. Sarraute as a leading exponent...fashionable on the French left at the time... |
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U. Arizona prof, writer explores language of gender even after death
...won the prestigious French literature award, the...was praised by other French writers like Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, and Nathalie Sarraute. She was also one of...Revolutionnaires, a French feminist group ... |
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Book Review: The Complete Cosmicomics
...felt that realist fiction was exhausted and the writer had to turn elsewhere for inspiration". Despite...exhausted. As that promoter and exponent of the French nouveau roman Nathalie Sarraute admitted, if reluctantly, "the traditional... |
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