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Nathalie Sarraute, a famous French novelist, is one of the earliest practitioners and major theorists of the "New Novel". "Childhood" is the most famous autobiographical novel written when the writer was 83 years old. "Childhood", written in his later years, is an autobiography and memoir of the writer Salote reminiscing about his childhood, but it almost completely eliminates the linear narrative of external events and life experiences. Instead, it is written in the form of his iconic inner dialogues, re-presenting the childhood memories buried deep in the writer's mind in the most vivid way. The memories presented in words in "Childhood" are as flexible and solid as the living memories themselves. Fuzzy yet clear, all the subtleties of human memory are revealed. It is worthy of being a masterpiece among the autobiographical memoirs of twentieth-century writers.