La Voix de L’indicible dans Enfance de Nathalie Sarraute

Abstract

The Voice of the Unspeakable in Childhood by Nathalie Sarraute

According to Nathalie Serrate, the question of relationships between writing and tropisms is raised right when dealing with fiction genre. Indeed, for that writer, elaborating "the verbal equivalent» of that matter, with an unspeakable characteristic within fiction, is a priority requiring for assiduous work on the literary style and questioning the narrative codes in use. Our article aims at exploring some exploited processes in "childhood" to give life to that sensitive matter. We initially show how the reformed instrumentalization of the interior discourse is suitable for the actualization of the tropism souvenirs, before analyzing the sense effects that involves the layout of a hyperbolic speech, a staging seat of an unfortunate body. As a conclusion, we will say that through Childhood, Sarraute once again offers writing as an experience that can question the unexpressed nature of the human. Indeed, the writer succeeds in carving up the envelope of the character and thus digging up the tropismic words that cross her silent interiority. And to fight against any fallacious representation of the Self, the current of consciousness of the voice that says "I" becomes the site of a most successful fictional adaptation through the alterity always in motion that it carries. Finally, the word is given to the body, to this inexhaustible reservoir of sensitive matter. Nothing is reassuring in this writing of corporeity: through hyperbolic language, everything becomes movement and “trembling”. Moreover, to be able to invest the novel which interests us here, the reader must exchange his amorphous reading to which he is accustomed with another which is more active, more elaborate because this fiction of the body becomes inaccessible for those who persist in reading with the schemes of traditional literature. The reassuring coherence of a well-ordered writing no longer has the right to exist, because the unsuspected depths impose an intense tropismic implication on the part of the reader.