Nathalie Sarraute (French pronunciation: [natali saˈʁot]) (July 18, 1900 in Ivanovo, Russia – October 19, 1999 in Paris, France) was a lawyer and a Francophone writer of Russian Jewish origin.
Sarraute was born Natalia/Natacha Tcherniak in Ivanovo (then known as Ivanovo-Voznesensk), 300 km north-east of Moscow in 1900 (although she frequently referred to the year of her birth as 1902, a date still cited in select reference works), and, following ...
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Nathalie Sarraute (French pronunciation: [natali saˈʁot]) (July 18, 1900 in Ivanovo, Russia – October 19, 1999 in Paris, France) was a lawyer and a Francophone writer of Russian Jewish origin.
Sarraute was born Natalia/Natacha Tcherniak in Ivanovo (then known as Ivanovo-Voznesensk), 300 km north-east of Moscow in 1900 (although she frequently referred to the year of her birth as 1902, a date still cited in select reference works), and, following the divorce of her parents, spent her childhood shuttled between France and Russia. In 1909 she moved to Paris with her father. Sarraute studied law and literature at the prestigious Sorbonne, having a particular fondness for 20th century literature and the works of Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf, who greatly affected her conception of the novel, then later studied history at Oxford and sociology in Berlin, before passing the French bar exam (1926-1941) and becoming a lawyer.
In 1925, she married Raymond Sarraute, a fellow lawyer, with whom...
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