“Nathalie Sarraute is one of the greatest novelists that France has ever had.” —Spectator 

“She wrings every last sweet or sour drop out of her material.” —Scotsman 

“Every sentence that she writes is priceless.”
—Claude Mauriac 

“Sarraute has a ruthless and dramatic notion of the quest for Reality.” —V.S. Pritchett, New Statesman