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Valerie Minogue

Valerie Minogue. Emeritus Professor of French, University of Wales Swansea. Author of Proust, ‘Du côte de chez Swann’ (1973), Nathalie Sarraute: The War of the Words (1981), and Zola: ‘L’Assommoir’ (1996). Co-editor of Nathalie Sarraute’s Oeuvres complètes (General Editor Jean-Yves Tadié, 1996). Founder and General Editor of Romance Studies.

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Nathalie Sarraute

Writer and lawyer Nathalie Sarraute was an innovative figure in post-World War II French literature. No longer allowed to practice law during the German occupation of France, she posed as the governess of her three daughters to hide her Jewish identity. Sarraute’s many novels and plays are characterized by an “inwardness” and an unusual lack of characters, names, and plot.