Nathalie Sarraute is remembered for writing that changed what came after it.
The record lists Nathalie Sarraute as French lawyer and writer (1900–1999).
Nathalie Sarraute was born at Ivanovo in 1900. Her recorded nationality is Russia. She was educated at Lycée Fénelon, Paris.
Around the turn of the twentieth century, literary form itself came under argument, and the certainties of the realist novel were dismantled.
She worked as writer, novelist and playwright.
The writing is recorded in French and Russian.
Reputation in letters is unusually volatile: writers are forgotten for a generation and then recovered by one.
That the work was written from Russia matters: language, censorship and the reach of a publishing industry decide which books travel and which stay local.
Nathalie Sarraute died in 1999, aged 99. The books remain, which is the only durable form a writing life takes.
