Sarraute was natural inside Ivanovo, touching Moscow, and passed her childhood between France and Russia. Within 1909, her family moved for good to Paris. She exposed law, history, & sociology & became an attorney. She was as well equally interested within 20th century literature, especially Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf, who greatly affected her conception of the novel. Around 1925, she married Raymond Sarraute, a fellow attorney. Around 1932, she wrote her first book known as "Tropismes", published around 1939 and applauded by Jean-Paul Sartre and Max Jacob. Around 1941, she quit her work as a attorney to consecrate herself to literature.

She became, by using Alain Robbe-Grillet, Michel Butor and Claude Simon, one of a numbers virtually all associated by having the trend of the nouveau roman.

Her girl is famed journalist Claude Sarraute, wife of French Academician Jean-François Revel.

Works (An Incomplete Listing)

Tropismes, 1939 Portrait of an Unknown, 1948 A Planetarium, 1959 A Golden Fruit, 1963

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