Dora Bruder by Patrick Modiano & Joanna Kilmartin

Author:Patrick Modiano & Joanna Kilmartin [Modiano, Patrick & Kilmartin, Joanna]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography
ISBN: 9780520218789
Amazon: 0520218787
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2014-11-07T05:00:00+00:00

I remember the intensity of my feelings while I was on the run in January 1960—an intensity such as I have seldom known. It was the intoxication of cutting all ties at a stroke: the clean break, deliberately made, from enforced rules, boarding school, teachers, classmates; you have nothing to do with these people from now on; the break from your parents, who have never understood you, and from whom, you tell yourself, it’s useless to expect any help; feelings of rebellion and solitude carried to flash point, taking your breath away and leaving you in a state of weightlessness. It was probably one of the few times in my life when I was truly myself and following my own bent.

This ecstasy cannot last. It has no future. You are swiftly brought down to earth.

Running away—it seems—is a call for help and occasionally a form of suicide. At least you experience a moment of eternity. You have broken your ties not only with the world but also with time. And one fine morning you find that the sky is a pale blue and that nothing now weighs you down. In the Tuileries garden, the hands on the clock have stopped for good. An ant is transfixed in its journey across a patch of sunlight.

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