Les mots et le monde dans l'écriture sarrautienne

Résumé (en anglais)

Nathalie Sarraute's quest by writing, whose reason is to capture by words and images some moments of the drives barely perceptible at the conscious level leads to creating a special fictional world able to capture what the author calls « tropisms », thus being different from Balzac's vision, but also from the self referential techniques of the 20th century literature. Without excluding representation, Sarraute's writing unveils the folds of the changing short-lived subjectivity that constitutes the « tropism substance » and ingeniously exploits language figurative resources helping to build up a universe of the perpetual confrontation between the two destinies of words: dissimulating or discovering the truth of tropisms. By analysing the novel Tu ne t'aimes pas (1989), this article will examine the writing which undermines the pretended self thanks to an original use of clichés and transforms itself into a carrier of genuine affective moves.