Portrait of a stranger

Author: [French] Nathalie Sarraute
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Publish Date: 2000-10-01
Features: This book is a representative work of the "New Novel" movement. The entire novel "Portrait of a Stranger" can be said to be a pair of watching eyes and the inner monologue of the observer. The relationship between father and daughter in the book actually represents the universality of human relationships: mutual need and mutual avoidance. This symbolism can be perceived even beneath the deliberately loose and disordered text. What the New Novel seeks to achieve beneath its misty and obscure words is actually reality, constantly piercing through the wall of unreality to find the truth.