2023-06-20 09:37:08
Journalist and novelist Claude Sarraute has just died at the age of 95, her family told AFP.
Journalist and novelist Claude Sarraute has just died at the age of 95, her son Martin Tzara told AFP.
Columnist in Le Monde for 35 years, Claude Sarraute was also known to the general public for her participation in Les Grosses têtes by Philippe Bouvard on RTL and in Laurent Ruquier’s show, We tried everything on France 2 and On va s’gêner on Europe. 1. For many viewers she will remain the unworthy granny, falsely ingenuous, who imposed her sense of burlesque on the sets.
Born in 1927 in Paris, Claude Sarraute was the daughter of Nathalie Sarraute, a great figure in the New Roman, who died in 1999.
“An indelible joy”
The intellectual and serious environment in which she grew up did not prevent her from having a taste for laughter.
“I made my mother laugh until I was 99. I was indelibly cheerful. With a woman like that, it was my only chance to get out of it, right? (…). Compare us , it’s comparing A la recherche du temps perdu and Pif le Chien. For her, what mattered was that I worked in a newspaper like Le Monde”, she noted to Liberation.
With a degree in English, she did a bit of theater before embarking on journalism, collaborating with the Sunday Express. In 1952, she began to write to Le Monde. She will stay there for 35 years, under the heading “Shows” then “Television” and finally by signing an insolent note on the last page, entitled “On the spot” (chronicles gathered in the collection “Say so!”).
“Clowneries”
She joined, in the early 90s, “the Ruquier band”. Unlike many women her age, she was not looking to look younger:
“I have lots of wrinkles but it’s not a problem” to go on TV, she assured, saying to fight “against youthism and anti-old racism”.
She added mischievously that “his age is his business”.
Claude Sarraute has long held a column for Psychologies magazine and has written several novels, which she described as “clowneries”, as if to apologize for not being at her mother’s level.
Among her books are “Hello, Lolotte, it’s Coco”, “Ah! love, always love”, “Sarraute, the girl of the year”, “Dad who?”, “Dis, est do you love me?”, “Tell me, Maminette…” or “Belle belle belle”. Ignoring formal formalities, she wrote in spoken style, advocating a futility that aimed to say the essential.
Claude Sarraute, who saw himself living as long as his much-admired mother, said in 2014: “Physically, everything is fine… The health problems, we had time to get used to them! And thank you too progress in medicine! At my age, we are patched up to last as long as possible”.
She was long married to the philosopher, essayist and journalist, academician Jean-François Revel, who died in 2006. She was the mother of sports journalist Martin Tzara and Nicolas Revel, head of the AP-HP.
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