After the publication of Villa triste (1975), several of Patrick Modiano's novels contain a storyline that is similar to the main plot of this novel: a man-often the story's narrator, who is also the ...male protagonist-recollects his adolescent years in the 1960's, and his brief encounter with a young and mysterious woman. In this article, I will study the function of this female protagonist in Modiano's novels. She is first and foremost a "passeur": she leads the male protagonist into the new worlds of love and crime, and she even provokes his "coming to writing." Furthermore, she is the one who transports the shades of the past, making it possible for the narrator to give the readers a fragmentary depiction of a world that no longer exists.
A self-conscious art Kawakami, Akane
2000., 20001201, 2000, 2000-12-01, Letnik:
5
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A Self-Conscious Art is the first full-length study in English to attempt to deal with the formal complexities of Modiano’s work, by reading ‘against the grain’ of his self-professed ingenuousness. A ...detailed examination of his narratives shows the deeply postmodern nature of his writing. Parodying precursors such as Proust or the nouveau romanciers, his narratives are built around a profound lack of faith in the ability of writing to retrieve the past through memory, and this failure is acknowledged in the discreet playfulness that characterises his novels. This book is a timely introduction to the work of one of the most successful modern French novelists.
Structured by the work of Erin McGlothlin, Morris's discussion situates Modiano within the critic's paradigm of second-generation Holocaust writers, yet nuances McGlothin's position by invoking the ...dubious wartime status of the writer's father. A son of a Jew who ensured his survival by collaborating with the French gestapistes, Patrick Modiano, as Morris convincingly argues, straddles the categories of second-generation survivor and second generation perpetrator, a status reflected in the ambiguity haunting his entire work.
La synecdoque est le mode de reprise de ces faits referentiels dans la fiction; elle s'accompagne d'un traitement optique de grossissement et de distorsion, echo au fameux telescope proustien. ...D'autre part, les ecoles de cette communaute enseignent le meme schema d'appropriation/expulsion qu'adopte le narrateur de La Place de l'étoile: "Dans nos ecoles on nous enseigne le doute et l'art d'oublier" (Borges 104).
En tant que maître du souvenir, Patrick Modiano fait preuve de passion pour le theme des rémirnscences des sa création littéraire. Dans ses oeuvres, l'utilisation flexible des techniques de la ...mémoire mene les protagonistes au passé oublié par le processus de la quete et de l'enquete. Le souvenir, étant une voie par laquelle nous essayons de faire réapparaítre le passé et d'échapper a la réalité, est Mnémosyne, la déesse de la mémoire qui nous permet d'aller puiser aux sources de l'art poétique ; elle nous ouvre aussi a la réflexion sur les anciennes expériences qui auraient pu nous offrir différents choix dont la valeur mérite des études approfondies. Ce texte propose une interpretation du diptyque de Modiano : Souvenirs dormants et Nos débuts dans la vie et se divisera en 3 grandes parties : la premiere s'appliquera a l'analyse textuelle qui étudiera les champs lexicaux, les formes et les valeurs symboliques des éléments ; la deuxieme sera consacrée a l'analyse stylistique qui traitera du registre du discours et examinera les structures grammaticales et leurs effets de sens ; la derniere s'adonnera a la philosophie des souvenirs de Modiano en vertu de la ?durée? crée par Bergson.
This article focuses on some peculiarities in the writings of the French author Patrick Modiano, the Nobel Prize winner for literature in 2014, and deals with novels that have made him famous in the ...national and world art space. The article notes that P. Modiano’s novel mentality is characterized by the synthesis of such basic values as the development of a fabulous, external canvas and focusing on the internal structures of the individual self. The characters of his novels relay the psychological interior of a person imbued with values and consciousness of modern urban life. P. Modiano’s leading semantic plots depict the complex mentality of the sensitive person and the vicissitudes of his dramatic fate in the context of the Hypercity. The landscape of the Supercity or the Hypercity in P. Modiano’s novels is organically linked to understanding a life as a journey of obscurity. For self-narrators to live a full life means to wander through the drips of their memory, to travel the real and imaginary streets of their own prehistory, which turns out to be their main life story in the end. Prominent place in the novels of P. Modiano belongs to the development of the mythopoetics of Paris, which is interpreted as a purely “inner” city in the psychological interior of the self-narrators. The specificity of the novel depiction of Paris lies in the interpretation of this metropolis as a highly detailed toponymic mythologeme. The key point in the article is that each self-narrator is sooner or later confronted with an internal need to investigate his own story. That is why P. Modiano’s self-narrators always delve into complex, contradictory files of their individual self and become a kind of “detective for themselves”. This plot outline becomes the basis for unfolding a holistic ontological concept in P. Modiano’s novels that reveals its marker and matrix features in each of his works.
It Is Solved by Walking Johnson, Michelle
World literature today,
03/2018, Letnik:
92, Številka:
2
Journal Article
Recenzirano
Because of the book's split structure, you get to see Lillian at a variety of ages, and part of why I wanted to do that was to show the continuity and consistency of her personality over the course ...of multiple decades. Since childhood, the first thing I've always done whenever I've arrived in a new place is to map it with my feet. According to our agreement, I sought her daily, and waited for her every night, so long as I stayed in London, at the corner of Titchfield Street. ...as my despairing resource, on the day I left London I put into the hands of the only person who (I was sure) must know Ann by sight, from having been in company with us once or twice, an address to -, in -shire, at that time the residence of my family.
In 1995, during the commemorative ceremony marking the fifty-third anniversary of the rafle du Vél'hiv', the newly elected French president, Jacques Chirac, implicated the broadly understood French ...state in the deportation of some 76,000 Jews to the Nazi concentration and death camps. ...the leading politicians' iconoclastic pronouncements were followed by other acknowledgements of institutional responsibility: in 1997 the Catholic church asked for forgiveness for its wartime silence, and a police officers' union offered an apology for the actions of their predecessors (Clifford 206-07). ...as the narrator's search for information about the eponymous Paris-born Jewish teenager develops, his tone becomes increasingly critical of the French state that he overtly blames for the arrest, internment, and deportation to Auschwitz of Dora and her parents. Since the publication of Modiano's Dora Bruder many other French-language writers have taken up the subject of World War II and the massacre of Europe's Jews; apart from Littell's already-mentioned monumental novel, recent French-language narratives about the Holocaust include Pierre Assouline's La Cliente (1998), Soazig Aaron's Le Non de Klara (2002), Philippe Claudel's Le Rapport de Brodeck (2007), Fabrice Humbert's L'Origine de la violence (2009), Yannick Haenel's Jan Karski (2009), Laurent Binet's HHhH (2010), Arnaud Rykner's Le Wagon (2010), or David Foenkinos's Charlotte (2014). ...Schneck commemorates her relative, Salome, who perished in the Kovno ghetto in 1943 and who is symbolically given a new life through the author's own daughter, called after the murdered girl.
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