Novelist, essayist and literary critic of the French mid-twentieth century. Saporta is the author of five novels-edge, highly acclaimed by critics formal experiments: Ferret (1959), considered by Robbe-Grillet as too unorthodox, tells a love story that ends badly, but not counted at any time; Distribution (1961), which leaves the reader to imagine the action of a play yet unwritten; The Search (1961), perhaps the most metaphysical of his books; Composition No. 1 (1962) and the mobility of people (1964), a mosaic composed of elements and varied stories, using various genres. He also translated into French major works of Ernest Hemingway, Jack Kerouac, Henry Kissinger and Martin Luther King.