Obstacles à la communication de soi à soi et de soi à l’autre dans l’univers fictionnel de Nathalie Sarraute
Some Barriers to the Communication Inside Oneself and Between Oneself and the Other in the Fictional Universe of Nathalie Sarraute

Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to identify some reasons of the failure of an interaction project by analyzing two correlative subjects: - the ways chosen in the fiction Tu ne t’aimes pas (“You Don’t Love Yourself”) for interacting with oneself and with the other; - the (dual) functions that the language acquires during the attempts of interacting successfully. In order to achieve this objective, we put forward the following hypotheses: - the common language (the community’s language) is frequently a tool for a more or less conscious manipulation, having, in general, two conflicted goals: to hide or, on the contrary, to reveal the affective movements (the “tropisms”); - the communicative behaviour depends on the choice made by the speakers between two usages of the common language, one which satisfies their intention to hide the “tropisms”, and another which serves to disclose them.Based on the aforementioned purpose and hypotheses, this research will emphasize some thematic aspects that seem to be suggested by the text itself, among which: - particularities of verbal interactions making a distinction between the world of “Them” and the world of “Us”; - claimed identity / identity assigned; - “missions” of commonplaces; - perseverance in keeping up appearance (“They”); - desire to persevere in one’s whole being (“Us”).

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