Nathalie Sarraute

Tropisms

jess

in it comes a set of stills in forms of morsels of stories, perceived upon the lens of each character that interplayed upon branches of complex tropismes, in contrast of its incredibly slim book. there wasn't anything incredibly profound per se, just the audiences, being the observer, to this inalienable beauty within its life forms, within its branches and microcosms, on its eventual peripheries.

"these movements, of which we are hardly cognizant, 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, and able to define. they seemed, and still seem to me to constitute the secret source of our existence, in what might be called its nascent state."

Trever

2.5. I like what Sarraute was getting at here but I feel like the lack of any context around these emotions caused me to feel detached and not understand what she was getting at.  The Planetarium, though, sounds really interesting and I'm gonna hop on that one soon.

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