Patrick Modiano is a French author whose works delve into themes of identity, memory, and elusive pasts. His writing explores the ambiguity of recollection and the search for truth amidst shadowed historical events, often set against the backdrop of occupied Paris. Modiano masterfully evokes an atmosphere of mystery and melancholy, employing a distinctive style characterized by subtle prose and unresolved, yet compelling, enigmas. Readers are drawn into his narratives through his examination of the fragility of human existence and the constant quest for belonging.
Published in English for the first time, 28 Paradises is the marriage of prose and painting by Nobel prize-winning author Modiano and his partner, the illustrator Zehrfuss, revealing not only the individual talents of its authors, but also the depth of the couple's creative union.
Ring Roads, for which Modiano was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman (1972), is the story of a young Jew, Serge, in search of his father, Chalva, who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds him trying to survive the war years in the unlikely company of black marketeers, anti-Semites and prostitutes, putting his meagre and not entirely orthodox business skills at the service of those who have no interest in him or his survival. Ring Roads is a brilliant, almost hallucinatory evocation of the uneasy, corrupt years of the Occupation and like The Night Watch is both cruel and tender - savage in its depiction of the anti-Semitic newspaper editor, the bullying ex-Foreign Legionnaire and the former prostitute, who treat Chalva with ever more threatening contempt; tender in its attempt to understand and identify with the Jew who cannot see the danger he courts.
One of the most seductive and accessible novels by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate
Catherine, the eponymous heroine, spent her childhood in Paris. In her youth, she lived with her gentle father, Georges Certitude. The real partners in this story are the father and daughter who share the simple pleasures of daily life: sitting in the church square, walking to school, and going to her ballet class every Thursday afternoon. schovat popis
This early work by the Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano relates the story of Lucien Lacombe: a poor boy in Nazi-occupied France who, rebuffed in his efforts to enter the Resistance for a taste of war, becomes a member of a sordid, pathetic group of Fascist collaborators who join the Gestapo in preying upon their countrymen. When Lucien encounters the Horns, a Jewish family from Paris hiding in his provincial town, he must choose between the coarse appeal of violence and his emerging feelings of tenderness for the family's daughter, France.
WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE, 2014Haunted by the fate of Dora Bruder - a fifteen-year-old girl listed as missing in an old December 1941 issue of Paris Soir - Nobel Prize-winning author Patrick Modiano sets out to find all he can about her.
Patrick Modiano explores the boundaries of recollection in his tenth book published by Yale University Press
Presents three short novels which explore the influence of the past, the complexities of human relationships, and the mysterious power of Paris over its residents and visitors.
An amnesic protagonist embarks on a quest for self-discovery, journeying from the idyllic landscapes of Polynesia to the historic streets of Rome. Through this exploration, the narrative delves into themes of memory, identity, and the search for belonging. Patrick Modiano, a Nobel Prize-winning author, weaves a compelling tale that captures the essence of human experience and the elusive nature of personal history.
