by Claude Sarraute · Pocket · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782266138284
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«Dis voir, Maminette» is the novel by Claude Sarraute, published by Pocket in paperback (151 pages, in French).
Maminette is 76 years old and has a vitality that defies stereotypes about ageing. With humour and practical sense, she dispenses advice among her younger friends Annie, Tess and Carole: raising children, finding the ideal man and the fear of growing old. A light story that celebrates experience and relationships between women.
The French Pocket edition is from 2004; the work is classified as modern and contemporary fiction.
For readers who want a short novel with a female protagonist full of humour and vitality.
Claude Élisabeth Sarraute was a French writer and journalist and columnist for Le Monde. She was a recurring panelist on the humoristic radio show Les Grosses Têtes between 1984 and 1995 and from 2014 until her death. She was the daughter of lawyer and novelist Nathalie Sarraute, and lawyer Raymond Sarraute. Her first marriage, with American journalist Stanley Karnow (1925–2013), lasted from 1948 to 1955. She remarried in 1957 to doctor Christophe Tzara (1927–2018), son of Swedish artist Greta Knutson and Romanian Dada poet Tristan Tzara. They had two sons, Laurent and Martin, and divorced in 1966. In 1967, she was married to Jean-François Revel (1924–2006), philosopher, writer and member of the Académie Française from 1998 on. They had two children, a daughter Véronique and a son Nicolas Revel, the former Chief of Staff of the Prime Minister Jean Castex.
