Nathalie Sarraute - The Age of Suspicion (epub) torrent

In these four essays, written from 1947 to 1956, Sarraute compares the novelistic intentions of past writers to innovators of the New French Novel. Speaking with the authority of a practicing innovator, Sarraute considers a wide range of talented novelists, including Dostoevsky, Kafka, Proust, Woolf and Compton-Burnett, in order to trace the evolution of the novel, and envision its future. Keenly observing the dynamics between author and the reader, Sarraute, who sees the contemporary novel as a constantly evolving form, attempts to shatter traditional forms. Although Sarraute peels away the achievements of predecessors to find out what is new, she refuses to acknowledge any feeling of "having arrived." In the last pages, Sarraute salutes those writers who will, like herself, continue to "break away from all that is prescribed and conventional and dead, and turn toward what is free, sincere and alive..."