The writer Patrick Modiano. / Daniel Mordzinski
The French novelist Patrick Modiano (Boulogne-Billancourt, 1945), one of Europe’s most influential storytellers, author of works perfect as Dora Bruder or Coffee lost youth , has received the Nobel Prize for Literature. His great novels, which often have as few pages as high narrative and intellectual intensity, represent a unique and courageous story of the worst moments in France in the twentieth century: the neo-Nazi Vichy regime and the occupation by the Germans during the Second World War.
The Swedish Academy has been argued that Modiano awarded the prize “for his art of memory which has evoked the most difficult to portray human destiny and the world unveiled the Occupation. ” Many have accused him of always writing the same book, which his detractors is a defect but its defenders is a blessing
Modiano in Spanish
- Sad Villa , 1976.
- The peripheral boulevards , 1977 Entitled the ring boulevards , built in Occupation Trilogy , 2012.
- The Night , 1979, part of Occupation Trilogy,
- dark street stores , 2009.
- The Family Book , 1982.
- A Youth , 1983.
- So good guys , 1985.
- The place of the Star , 1989 Integrated Occupation Trilogy , 2012
- Sunday August , 1989.
- Exculpation , 1989.
- The Children’s Corner , 1990
- Honeymoon , 1991.
- Beyond Oblivion , 1997.
- Dora Bruder , 1999.
- The worlds of Catalina , 2001.
- Unknown , 2001.
- Little Jewel , 2003.
- A pedigree , 2007.
- For coffee lost youth , 2008.
- The horizon, 2010
- lost Barrio , 2012
- flowers ruin and Dog Spring , 2012.
- A circus goes , 2013.
- Grass Nights , 2014.
Posted in Spain especially by publisher Anagram although his work has been very dispersed and in France by Gallimard, Modiano is a humble writer and above all, brave. With the script Lacombe Lucien , who wrote in 1974 with Louis Malle, was one of the first to denounce something that had previously been taboo: the active French participation in the persecution of the Jews, the misery of the collaboration. The film caused a tremendous stir in France and opened a wound that has never closed Modiano in his books.
Among his major novels include C alle the Dark Stores, occupation trilogy (The place of the star, The Night Watch and ring rides) , Sunday August Honeymoon The Children’s Corner, Sad Villa, in the cafe of lost youth, a pedigree or The unknown . Anagram, which released in July The herb night, plans to recover in the coming months two books, Accident Night and Family book, and edit Pour your ne te pas dans le quartier perdes (Not to miss in the neighborhood), that came out in France last week. An important part of his work has been translated into Castilian by Maria Teresa Gallego Urrutia , which has achieved recreate the clarity and lightness of the French in which Modiano writes.
When Jean-Marie Le Clézio won the Nobel in 2007, many thought the perennial candidate of French literature, Modiano own , had run out of the top prize of world literature. However, in the end, the Swedish Academy to award repeated language a work as complex as a simple time, that seems to always set in the luxurious district in Paris XVI, but walking with intense drama and conflict of the twentieth century .
His latest book is indeed Pour your ne te pas dans le quartier perdes ( In order not to miss in the neighborhood ) in The essential white collection with red letters Gallimard. Like everyone else, does not reach the 200 pages (160). The Modiano himself, in an interview published by Gallimard explains startup, which can not be more classical in his work. “Novel start with the ringing of the phone The main character, Jean Daragane, after hesitation, just respond. A stranger says he has in his possession a phone book Daragane lost. But something seems suspicious. ” So begins a journey to the memories and the mysteries of life.
Asked in the promotional interview whether Gallimard unravel the mystery in a book does not lead to disappointment for the reader, Modiano gives an answer that some extent, summarizes much of their literature: “Do not ever unravel the mystery Anyway, a writer could not even if you try to clear it meticulously, not only reinforces the mystery Samuel Beckett said… Proust that he did nothing with his characters: ‘Al explain, was that the mystery is deeper “
. In his latest review work, The herb night, Sage books Alberto Manguel wrote in July Babelia “If every novel about imagining the chapters missing in life, all biography is somehow inspired fiction. Throughout a considerable work, Patrick Modiano has tried to build those chapters which the author knows for sure more than a few scraps. However, these are enough to give Modiano’s novels extraordinary verisimilitude and conviction. Modiano’s biography covers the second half of the twentieth century and early twenty-first; His work also. In the center are the awful years of the Second World War and the occupation of France, and the long shadow of the Holocaust; Also, the war in Algeria . nights Grass does not escape this proverbial path “
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Modiano’s last work published this week: ‘Pour your ne te pas dans le quartier perdes’ (So do not miss the neighborhood). / Michael Probst (ap)
Italian for the father (who was Jewish) and Belgian mother’s side, born right at the end of World War II, Modiano published his first novel, The place of the Star in 1968, which had an almost instant success, and became a fully recognized writer ten years after receiving the Goncourt prize for Laurel dark shops . If you had to choose one book to sum up the genius of Modiano A possible choice is Dora Bruder, wrote that the narrator through a press release that said, “Wanted a girl, Dora Bruder, 15, 1.55 meters, oval face gray brown eyes, coat sport gray, pullover burgundy, navy skirt and hat, shoes sport brown. Contact Mr. and Mrs. Bruder, Boulevard Ornano, 41, Paris. ” Their investigations, of course, led him to collaboration and Auschwitz, led him to the sinister guts of the twentieth-century Europe.
In an interview published by Babelia in 2009, Modiano said about this novel… “Then, over the years, and with the book already published, I got some more information about Dora And I raised the question of whether it was worth rewriting the novel or not I decided not No I am a historian. I am a novelist.’s not so much the result of the search as the search itself. So the novel was left as is. “
On his obsession acclimate his novels in the neighborhood XVI Paris bourgeois seemingly bland, dominated both by the shadow of the Eiffel Tower and the solid mansions, said in the same interview: “ So, because there is nothing special Many consider a typical bourgeois neighborhood. . But is not it at all. Involved anonymous, banal neighborhood without landmarks, where one can imagine things. In other Parisian neighborhoods you feel blocked by history. Trocadero and around one can see the streets and the people who inhabit a slightly dreamlike way. “
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