Patrick Modiano
Autor(a) de Missing Person
About the Author
Paul Modiano is a French writer who was born on July 30, 1945, in Boulogne-Billancourt. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014 for his lifetime body of work. He previously won the Austrian State Prize for European Literature in 2012 and the Prix mondial Cino Del Duca from the Institut de mostrar mais France for his lifetime achievement in 2010. His other awards include the Prix Goncourt in 1978 for his novel Rue des boutiques obscures and the Grand prix du roman de l'Académie française in 1972 for Les Boulevards de ceinture. Modiano's works explore the traumas of the Nazi occupation of France and the puzzle of identity. His preoccupation with the theme of identity can be seen throughout many of his works including his 2005 memoir entitled Un Pedigree. Modiano was greatly influenced by his parents' relationship. His mother and father began their clandestine relationship during occupied France. Growing up, his father was absent for most of his life and his mother was away frequently while on tour acting. He was alone much of the time and went to school because of government aid. His younger brother died of a disease at age 10 and this added to his "lost identity" feelings while growing up. Modiano first came to prominence in France when he wrote the 1968 book La Place de L'Étoile. He has published over 30 works which include novels, screenplays and children's books. His other works include: La Ronde de nuit (1969), English translation: Night Rounds; Rue des boutiques obscures (1978), English translation: Missing Person; and Quartier Perdu (1984), English translation: A Trace of Malice. Although he is well known in France, only about 12 of his works have been translated into English. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
Séries
Obras por Patrick Modiano
RRUGA E DYQANEVE TE ERRETA 2 exemplares
MUNDOS DE CATALINA, LOS - BVN.137 2 exemplares
LULET E RRENIMIT 1 exemplar
Ensemble 1 exemplar
Bloemen en puin 1 exemplar
ModianoLa place de l'étoile 1 exemplar
La place de l'étoile - Rues des Boutiques Obscures - Dora Bruder - Un pedigree: Coffret 4 livres (2014) 1 exemplar
Phố những cửa hiệu u tối 1 exemplar
Lembranças Adormecidas 1 exemplar
ממורי ליין 1 exemplar
Associated Works
A Bookshop in Berlin: The Rediscovered Memoir of One Woman's Harrowing Escape from the Nazis (2000) — Prefácio, algumas edições — 451 exemplares
Profil d'une oeuvre : La ronde de nuit (1969), Patrick Modiano : résumé, personnages, thèmes (1992) — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome canónico
- Modiano, Patrick
- Nome legal
- Modiano, Jean-Patrick
- Data de nascimento
- 1945-07-30
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Frankrijk
- Local de nascimento
- Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, Frankrijk
- Locais de residência
- Parijs, Frankrijk
- Educação
- Lycée Henri IV, Paris, France
- Ocupações
- romanschrijver
scenarist - Relações
- Queneau, Raymond (geometriedocent)
Zehrfuss, Dominique (echtg.) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Nobel Prize (Literature ∙ 2014)
Grand prix de littérature Paul Morand de l'Académie française (2000)
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Críticas
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Five star books (1)
French Books (1)
Livres français (1)
french letters (1)
Allie's Wishlist (1)
1970s (1)
Backlisted (1)
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 84
- Also by
- 5
- Membros
- 9,077
- Popularidade
- #2,650
- Avaliação
- 3.7
- Críticas
- 325
- ISBN
- 816
- Línguas
- 32
- Marcado como favorito
- 26
Modiano, is, in some way, the opposite of Handke: we sense he is always making a mistake (Handke writes "Deep Blue"). Our author is constructing a story of loss whose heroines, unlike in Sebald (Austerlitz), are not stored in carbonic (maid) nor celluloid (mother). Here, we are seeking the Polaroid, going after the (ephemeral) magazine, recalling the issue our chief character borrows with a promise and fails to return. A history of magazines not returned. Nobody seems to ask any questions. Eager to believe. He is always responding 'yes' as if at a séance or motivational interview. And we sense our narrator has never actually left that office full of books of faded directories bequeathed at the outset of his journey - playing, instead, an Oulipian game of construction: semantic connections, constellations (and makeup) on empty space.
But this is just a kind of bad writing (there are good and bad ways to do Oulipo), arising from the space of imagination and always making a mistake. Among those we know to practice confabulation (I am seeking a less pejorative term), O'Connor's efforts are most frail, Joyce Carol Oates a little better with history to stand on, Murnane's are more complex (Because he is always scraping the imaginary landscape to the bone. (This is how, at his most successful, we are occasionally getting the so-called Murnane-sentence, hardly more than a phrase, which is trying to go a little deeper.)) It sometimes takes more imagination to do nothing at all. Modiano, who has surely read Kafka (The Castle), may have done better to cut our novella short mid-sentence during that scene adrift in the Swiss Alps (also the halting point of my memory of the text).… (mais)