Patrick Modiano: 76 books

Después de un prolongado silencio tras ser galardonado con el Premio Nobel, Patrick Modiano regresa a las librerías por partida doble con dos libros breves: la novela Recuerdos durmientes y esta obra de teatro, Nuestros comienzos en la vida, que no es la primera incursión en el género del escritor...

Reticente a ponerse bajo los focos, Patrick Modiano leyó, tras recibir el Premio Nobel, un discurso bellísimo que es una auténtica arspoetica en la que desgrana las claves de su obra y su visión de la literatura. Habla aquí del temprano deseo de escribir como un modo de intentar entender el mundo...

París, octubre de 1942. Un hombre y una mujer se conocen durante la ocupación de la ciudad. Ella es belga; él, judío. Se casan y tienen dos hijos, uno de los cuales es Patrick Modiano. Durante veinte años viven juntos, pero llevan vidas paralelas. A su alrededor, un mundo extravagante, lleno...

Patrick Modiano and Louis Malle’s screenplay for the Oscar-nominated film tells a powerful story set in World War II France of a seventeen-year-old boy who allies himself with collaborators, only to fall in love with a Jewish girl **                  ** This early work by the Nobel...

Les étoiles, si on les regarde fixement, émettent une clarté vacillante, discontinue, et cette lumière nous arrive longtemps après leur mort. C'est une lumière qui doute d'elle-même, et ce mystérieux tremblement, cette hésitation entre l'être et le néant, nous captive. Telle était Françoise...

Um Circo Que Passa revela bem o estilo de Patrick Modiano, fortemente marcado pela guerra, pelos anos 40 e pela sua própria infância. A polícia, os bares duvidosos e as ruas de uma cidade simultaneamente amiga e inimiga – é nesta Paris dos anos 60 que acompanhamos a fuga e as deambulações de um...

AN NYRB CLASSICS ORIGINAL Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature ** ** Young Once is a crucial book in the career of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. It was his breakthrough novel, in which he stripped away the difficulties of his earlier work and found a clear, mysteriously moving voice for...

When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature, he was praised for using the "art of memory" to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. Born just after the war, Modiano was an angry young man in his twenties when he wrote these three brilliant,...

One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano’s writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance. In this evocative novel the internationally acclaimed author takes up one of his most compelling themes: a...

NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, inspired in part by the...

When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for LIterature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. The Night Watch is his second novel and tells the story of a young man of limited means, caught between his...

In this strange, elegant novel, winner of France's premier literary prize the Prix Goncourt, Patrick Modiano portrays a man in pursuit of the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris Occupation, the black hole of French memory. For ten years Guy Roland has lived without a past. His current life...

This novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Patrick Modiano is one of the most seductive and accessible in his oeuvre: the story of a man’s memories of fleeing responsibility, finding love, and searching for meaning in an uncertain world ** ** The narrator of Villa Triste, an anxious, roving, stateless...

Toen Patrick Modiano werd bekroond met de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur was dat vooral, aldus het Nobelprijscomité, omdat hij als geen ander de kunst van het herinneren verstaat. Modiano is een melancholicus pur sang, die in zijn romans de betrouwbaarheid van het geheugen onderzoekt, en die ons keer...