Modiano explores the role of the writer in his Nobel Lecture – Diario de Navarra

The French novelist Patrick Modiano , winner of Literature Nobel 2014 , explored the role of the writer, distant witness of his time, in your Prize acceptance speech Sunday before an enthusiastic audience. The writer of 69 years was visibly moved and happy to be in the majestic hall Bag Swedish Academy, before an enthralled audience.

“I just to discover his work. Write wonderfully. It’s like reading poetry fictionalized “said Sandra Wigfors a communications specialist for 27 years. “I breathe the atmosphere. It is culture at its best. It’s a real honor to meet the creators,” Ann Gill, a teacher of 61 years.

Invited to speak by the evergreen secretary marveled the Academy Peter Englund, with a “Master, please,” the novelist took the stage before the benevolent gaze and accomplice of his family.

Modiano, terribly shy, began his speech a little hesitant but little little was strengthening its security in the exploration of the essence of the role of the writer . “Prisoner of his time,” the writer is marked by its perception of time when born and he lives.

The writer is seen as “a child war (…), a child who owed its birth to the Paris of the “German occupation. “I think that some episodes of my childhood have served die for my books later,” he confessed.

But it is also a writer of the XXI century, as colleagues may feel some Nostalgia of the great novelists of the nineteenth because “time passed more slowly than today and this slowness allowed the novelist focus your energy and attention.” According to the French writer, this explains the difference between “monumental fictional works of the past (…) and discontinuous works and parceled today “. “The social networks will undermine some of the privacy and secrecy that until recently were our good, the secret that printed depth to people and could be a great romantic theme,” he continued.

However, the novelist refused to condemn Internet and culture of immediacy that convey social networks. “I am convinced that the writers of the future will ensure the baton as it has done every generation since Homer,” he said, especially because the writer “manifested in his works something timeless.”

All author, Sometimes acupuncturist, sleepwalker, seer, and seismograph, is also an artist. Modiano explained that feels close both painters , as Modigliani, as musicians , “which seems to practice a novel than art.”

Rewarded “by the art of memory with which it has evoked the most elusive human destinies and unveiled the world of Occupation” Nazi France (1940-1944), considered to memory is inseparable from the work of novelist . “Undoubtedly, the vocation of novelist, before this great blank page of oblivion, is to rescue some words that were partially lost, as these icebergs adrift on the ocean surface,” he said.

” It was fantastic. I am full of admiration. But it’s so shy he looked embarrassed with all this applause, “said Bjorn Ahlberg, a retired seventy years.

Patrick Modiano is the fifteenth French author winner Nobel Prize for Literature . On Wednesday, his reward from the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, along with the other winners in this edition of 2014, with the exception of peace, which is awarded in Oslo.