Nathalie Sarraute (French: [natali saÊ ot]; born Natalia Ilinichna
Tcherniak (Russian: Ð Ð°Ñ‚Ð°Ì Ð»ÑŒÑ Ð˜Ð»ÑŒÐ¸Ì Ð½Ð¸Ñ‡Ð½Ð°
Ð§ÐµÑ€Ð½Ñ Ì Ðº); 18 July [O.S. 5 July] 1900 â€" 19 October 1999) was a
French writer and lawyer.[1]Sarraute was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk
(now Ivanovo), 300 km north-east of Moscow. She was the daughter of
Pauline (née Chatounovsky), a writer, and Ilya Tcherniak, a
chemist.[2] She was of Russian Jewish origin. Following the divorce of
her parents, she spent her childhood shuttled between France and
Russia. In 1909 she moved to Paris with her father. Sarraute studied
law and literature at the prestigious Sorbonne, having a particular
fondness for contemporary literature and the works of Marcel Proust
and Virginia Woolf, who greatly affected her conception of the novel,
then later studied history at Oxford and sociology in Berlin, before
passing the French bar exam (1926â€"1941) and becoming a lawyer.In
1925, she married Raymond Sarraute, a fellow lawyer, with whom she
would have three daughters. In 1932 she wrote her first book,
Tropismes, a series of brief sketches and memories that set the tone
for her entire oeuvre. The novel was first published in 1939, although
the impact of World War II stunted its popularity. In 1941, Sarraute,
who was Jewish, was barred from working as a lawyer as a result of the
Vichy regime's anti-Jewish laws. During this time, she went into
hiding and made arrangements to divorce her husband in an effort to
protect him (although they would eventually stay together).
Tcherniak (Russian: Ð Ð°Ñ‚Ð°Ì Ð»ÑŒÑ Ð˜Ð»ÑŒÐ¸Ì Ð½Ð¸Ñ‡Ð½Ð°
Ð§ÐµÑ€Ð½Ñ Ì Ðº); 18 July [O.S. 5 July] 1900 â€" 19 October 1999) was a
French writer and lawyer.[1]Sarraute was born in Ivanovo-Voznesensk
(now Ivanovo), 300 km north-east of Moscow. She was the daughter of
Pauline (née Chatounovsky), a writer, and Ilya Tcherniak, a
chemist.[2] She was of Russian Jewish origin. Following the divorce of
her parents, she spent her childhood shuttled between France and
Russia. In 1909 she moved to Paris with her father. Sarraute studied
law and literature at the prestigious Sorbonne, having a particular
fondness for contemporary literature and the works of Marcel Proust
and Virginia Woolf, who greatly affected her conception of the novel,
then later studied history at Oxford and sociology in Berlin, before
passing the French bar exam (1926â€"1941) and becoming a lawyer.In
1925, she married Raymond Sarraute, a fellow lawyer, with whom she
would have three daughters. In 1932 she wrote her first book,
Tropismes, a series of brief sketches and memories that set the tone
for her entire oeuvre. The novel was first published in 1939, although
the impact of World War II stunted its popularity. In 1941, Sarraute,
who was Jewish, was barred from working as a lawyer as a result of the
Vichy regime's anti-Jewish laws. During this time, she went into
hiding and made arrangements to divorce her husband in an effort to
protect him (although they would eventually stay together).
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