<![CDATA[This study examines the instability of allegorical meaning in Nathalie Sarraute’s novel Les Fruits d’Or (1963) through a Derridean deconstructive reading. Employing a qualitative, descriptive-analytical approach, the study analyses six purposively selected excerpts that foreground allegorical expressions and textual tensions relevant to deconstructive analysis. The data were collected through repeated close reading of the novel, followed by the identification and selection of passages that most clearly exhibited binary oppositions, logocentric assumptions, and the play of différance. The selected excerpts were then subjected to close textual analysis to examine how these mechanisms destabilise apparently coherent allegorical meanings. The findings indicate that the selected passages disrupt conventional oppositions, expose the privileging of particular terms within logocentric structures, and defer or displace meaning through the play of différance. Rather than yielding fixed allegorical interpretations, these textual dynamics generate competing and continually shifting possibilities of meaning, contributing to the novel’s ambiguous and parabolic texture. The study thus demonstrates, within the scope of the six selected excerpts, how Sarraute’s avant-garde literary practice can be read through Derridean deconstruction as a site of unstable allegorical signification. The study is limited to six purposively selected excerpts and therefore does not claim to exhaust the broader allegorical possibilities of Les Fruits d’Or.]]>
Copyrights © 2026
