De la fiction à la réalité dans le Nouveau Roman : la saisie du tropisme chez Nathalie Sarraute
From Fiction to Reality in the Nouveau Roman: The Perception of Tropism in Nathalie Sarraute’s Works

Summary/Abstract: In Nathalie Sarraute’s works, fiction is a way to access reality, but a reality defined by the act of writing and by the perception of tropism. Actually, fictional writing sets the world within the limits of an ideal, quasi-oneiric “reality”. Similarly unreal, fiction and dreams bring forward one reality: that of writing, of language and, above all, of the sensation that created them. Like all those connected to the Nouveau Roman movement, Nathalie Sarraute attempts to translate social disruptions at the beginning of the 20th century into searching for what remains authentic within interpersonal connections – the only reality there is. Simulating fiction, she tries to access and communicate this reality, meant to reveal the world inside us. Nonetheless, the reality of tropism can only be perceived through a particular point of view, inherently subjective. Bringing about and representing tropism mean expressing the sensation that accompanies its passage from unreality to reality.

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