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Written when the author was eighty-three years old, but dealing with only the first twelve years of her life, this title is constructed as a dialogue between the author and her memory. It interrogates her interlocutor in search of her own intentions, more precise accuracy, and, indeed, the truth.

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"Evoked with telescoping intensity, these scenes glow with the immediacy of time not recalled but relived." (Vanity Fair) "Childhood is a dialogue with memory, a merciless coaxing of memory into images and then into refractions of images, until memory is stripped of sentiment and becomes something close to sensation itself." (New Yorker)"

Childhood

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    A Paperback / softback by Nathalie Sarraute, Barbara Wright

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      Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 15/03/2013
      ISBN13: 9780226922317, 978-0226922317
      ISBN10: 0226922316

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Written when the author was eighty-three years old, but dealing with only the first twelve years of her life, this title is constructed as a dialogue between the author and her memory. It interrogates her interlocutor in search of her own intentions, more precise accuracy, and, indeed, the truth.

      Trade Review
      "Evoked with telescoping intensity, these scenes glow with the immediacy of time not recalled but relived." (Vanity Fair) "Childhood is a dialogue with memory, a merciless coaxing of memory into images and then into refractions of images, until memory is stripped of sentiment and becomes something close to sensation itself." (New Yorker)"

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