Nouveau Roman

Think I must have been the vote for Sarraute.

I read The Lover when it first came out in English, '85, maybe '86 if trade pb, don't remember. Just remember liking it, though some alarm bells from my own life, possibly (emotional hypochondria?)

Wiki lists several versions:
There are two published versions of The Lover: one written in the form of an autobiography, without any superimposed temporal structures, as the young girl narrates in first-person; the other, called The North China Lover and released in conjunction with the film version of the work, is in film script form, in the third person, with written dialogue and without internal monologue. This second version also contains more humor than the original.

In the first version of Avital Inbar's Hebrew translation (Maariv publishers,1986), there is (page 11) an excerpt, dictated by Marguerite Duras on the phone to her translator. A section that does not appear in any other version of the book.

Barbara Bray's English translation won the Scott Moncrieff Prize and PEN/Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize in 1986.

Surely that's supposed to be Jean Ricardou.

Does Lasses refer to the young Scottish women writers producing novels in this style?

The wikipedia page declares Mark Z. Danielewski to be "in the style of."

Review of a Sarraute autobiog:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v42/n17/toril-moi/it-isn-t-your-home

Its an ok review except the case for Sarraute's fiction is p/weak (that she somehow could be read alongside with people like Ferrante and Sebald isn't really true).

Duras is a much better writer/artist (MUBI are running a short season as we speak) except I don't think she writes like Sarraute or Grillet at all.

https://www.contramundumpress.com/the-darkroom

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-path-of-cheerful-despair-on-marguerite-durass-my-cinema/