Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry.

Agnés Varda dedicated her 1985 film Sans toit ni loit (Vagabonde) to her. Despite such high critical praise however the work only drew notice from literary insiders as did her follow-up Martereau. The issues with memory which Sarraute highlighted in her autobiography carried through to her last novel Here publiNathalie Sarrauted in 1995 in which the author explores a range of existential issues relating to the formlessness of both individual and social reality.