Do you hear them?

Nathalie Sarraute

Original title: Vous les entendez?

first published 1972 French & European Pubns, 1976 paperback

Coleman Dowell series

"The setting of Nathalie Sarraute's Do You Hear Them? is a dinner conversation between a father and his old friend about a recently acquired pre-Columbian statue. As they discuss the merits of the piece and art in general, the father hears his children upstairs, giggling. This mirth is barbaric and devastating to the father, for in their laughter he hears them mocking his "old fashioned" viewpoint and the energy he w...

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Do you hear them? edition · 2004 · Dalkey Archive Press · 147 pages
Do You Hear Them? paperback · 1984 · Calder Publications Ltd · 148 pages · 9780714540351
Vous Les Entendez? paperback · 1976 · Editions Flammarion · 185 pages · 9782070368396
Vous les Entendez? paperback · 1976 · French & European Pubns · 9780828837439
Do you hear them? edition · 1973 · G. Braziller · 147 pages

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