The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute
The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute. Translated by Maria Jolas. 1960 George Braziller, first U.S. edition, 296 pages. Sarraute was a Russian-born French author who was a key part of the French avante-garde. According to the Guardian: "There was never any danger of Sarraute becoming a popular writer. She was thought, wrongly, to be "difficult", which is another way of saying that she made no concessions to her readers, who need to concentrate, to keep thinking, when reading her. There are few if any "events" in her fiction, beyond the domestic and the familial."
Condition: Jacket in Good+, some chips and browning, small tear on spine, book VG with sunning to the boards
"They are setting up a new order, a new civilization, while she wanders miserably admist the rubble, in search of old debris."
The Planetarium by Nathalie Sarraute. Translated by Maria Jolas. 1960 George Braziller, first U.S. edition, 296 pages. Sarraute was a Russian-born French author who was a key part of the French avante-garde. According to the Guardian: "There was never any danger of Sarraute becoming a popular writer. She was thought, wrongly, to be "difficult", which is another way of saying that she made no concessions to her readers, who need to concentrate, to keep thinking, when reading her. There are few if any "events" in her fiction, beyond the domestic and the familial."
Condition: Jacket in Good+, some chips and browning, small tear on spine, book VG with sunning to the boards
"They are setting up a new order, a new civilization, while she wanders miserably admist the rubble, in search of old debris."