Tropisms

Nathalie Sarraute

earliest edition we have, 1967 Alma Classics, 2018 112 pages

"Tropisms" are "movements of which we are hardly cognizant, [they] slip through us on the frontiers of consciousness in the form of undefinable, extremely rapid sensations. They hide behind our gestures, beneath the words we speak, the feelings we manifest, are aware of experiencing... They... seem to me to constitute the secret source of our existence, in what might be called its nascent state."--Foreword, p..

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Tropisms edition · 2018 · Alma Classics · 112 pages · 9780714542546
Tropisms edition · 2015 · New Directions Publishing Corporation · 96 pages · 9780811222761
Tropisms edition · 1967 · Braziller Incorporated, George · 9780807604076
Tropisms paperback · 1967 · George Braziller · 59 pages · 9780807604120

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