Modiano is defined as a “prisoner of his time” novelist – HOME

Modiano are about to read his Nobel Lecture in Stockholm. / Anders Wiklund (AP)

The French novelist Patrick Modiano read this Sunday afternoon in Stockholm Nobel speech, in which he advocated the role of the writer as a witness of his time. “A novelist is indelibly marked by your birth date and your time, even if you have not participated directly in political action, even if it seems to be a loner, entrenched in what they call their ivory tower “said the French author while reading in the Swedish Academy.

” Prisoner of his time, a narrator is marked by the perception of the time in which he was born and where he lives, “he added the author of novels such as Dora Bruder or Star Place , works in the recent history of France, especially the Second World War, have an essential role. Modiano described himself as “a child of the war, which owed its birth to the Paris of the occupation.”

The novelist was described as a writer of the twentieth century, with a certain nostalgia to the big storytellers of the nineteenth century by “that time passed more slowly than today shape and this slowness was essential to the work of the narrator, because he could concentrate his energy and attention.”

“Today networks Social undertake a part of intimacy and secrecy that was very valuable until recently, the secret gives depth to people and could be a great topic of novel “continued Modiano, however, refused to condemn Internet and culture the immediate conveyed by social networks.

“I am convinced that the writers of the future will ensure over as does every generation since Homer,” the writer said, has always tried to “express in all his works something timeless. ” Modiano also recognized related to painters like Modigliani and musicians “who practice a higher art of the novel.”

The novelist is the fifteenth French writer awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. You will receive your reward on Wednesday from King of Sweden with the other winners.