No had to turn 70 Patrick Modiano (Boulogne-Billancourt, July 30, 1945) to put on the shelf ‘honor’ the most important award of Literature: Nobel, awarded Thursday October 9 , 2014.
The French writer brings important awards, including the Prix Goncourt in 1978 for The dark street stores , the Prize of the Pierre of Monaco Foundation in 1984 by the body of work or the Great Novel Prize of the French Academy in 1972.
The misery of the French collaborationist
No time denouncing lived and unites and focuses his prose, but is part of the identity you are looking From the beginning the author has not lost sight nor the Nazi occupation and the collaborationist French with the Nazi regime, fundamental part Seal Modiano . The Star Place (1968), The Night (1969) and Peripheral boulevards (1972 ) are the first three novels and these are the pillars that define and prose.
Peripheral boulevards introduced another issue that is very much alive in the writing of the French: Search of Father
. It is true that the writer, paternal descendant of a family of Italian Jews, lived the era and focuses complaint and joins his prose, but it’s part of that identity and seeking of denouncing misery posed to him that time . Furthermore, although not live and suffer that time is part of his personal past. Unable to flee to the steps leading up to the own biography.
There are, though, higher your search path when published in 1975 Villa Triste , located in the sixties and narrated by a young woman hiding in a French town near the Swiss border so they do not recruit and send to Algeria. In his shelter lives a love affair with an actress. The novel came to the movies from the hand of Patrice Leconte. Yvonne’s Perfume
where you can find more openly to Modiano no writer , the staff, is in the collection of stories The family book (1977), in which naked part of his life: his early singing mother, her father persecution by the Gestapo .. . A story that does not escape and ditch Modiano 2004 A Pedigree, where his father has a strong presence and importance.
So, father is also the recipient of his sixth novel , Street of the Dark Shops (1978). To him, right after the death, dedicated this work. It located at 60, here the writer favors a forgetfulness, very useful for the author himself: as the protagonist is a detective with amnesia whose primary mission is to find your identity; and from there to the time of the occupation, always the center, soon lead Modiano. The novel took the Prix Goncourt.
His father, after the death, dedicated Street of the Dark Shops (1978) During the eighties and nineties has continued publishing without rest, and its themes have continued faithful to the pillars, as seen in the very remarkable Dora Bruder (1997), a work in investigating the case study of a 15 year old girl , who had disappeared and had been sent to Auschwitz. The complaint continues Modiano and his consecration accompanies your search
“It’s becoming the same book but from different angles: there is no repetition, but the same work.”
After a while without posting, returns with The Coffee lost youth (2007), which was received with great enthusiasm .
The search for identity becomes impregnated all pages , which explains the author, “It’s the same book but written in pieces, like a runner stops and rebuke the race soon after.’s getting the same book but from different angles. No repetition, but the same work. “
This is the same book but writing pieces, like a runner continues the line which does not separate, coherent and out of fashion or evasion stops, in works like skyline (2010). Active and persevering, has just published his latest work in France, To not to miss in the neighborhood . Coming soon will be in Spain by Anagram.
Film, always attentive to the good stories, has not wasted the opportunity to bring them to their land. Besides The perfume Yvonne , Manuel Poirier was inspired by it for your movie I love you , and Mikhael Hers adapted On whether braves garçons in Charell .
He wanted Modiano also be active part in films writing the screenplay : Louis Malle wrote Lacombe Lucien (1974), and Pascal Aubier the Le fils de Gascogne (1995). His is the script Bon voyage (2002) by Jean-Paul Rappeneau
But:. Around the ‘touched’ by Modiano is that pillar that forms and shapes its life and work, the Modiano not forget the misery of the Nazis and the misery of those who worked .
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