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of psycho logica lly perceived "mo tives" or semiconscious tropisms
seems less important than Sarraute's a llegiance
to
the separa tion itself.
Perhaps more than anything else, Besser's faithful textua l a nalysis
shows tha t Sarraute's break with the fiction o f the past is no t as radical
in prac tice as it is in theory.
JULIA PREWITT BROWN
