The Night Watch by Patrick Modiano

Author:Patrick Modiano [Modiano, Patrick]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2015-02-07T16:00:00+00:00

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LA PLACE DE L’ÉTOILE

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

The narrator of this wild and whirling satire is a hero on the edge, who imagines himself in Paris under the German Occupation. Through his mind stream a thousand different possible existences, where sometimes the Jew is king, sometimes a martyr, and where tragedy disguises itself as farce. Real and fictional characters from Maurice Sachs and Drieu La Rochelle, Marcel Proust and the French Gestapo, Captain Dreyfus and the Petainist admirals, to Freud, Hitler and Eva Braun spin past our eyes. But at the centre of this whirligig is La Place de l’Étoile, the geographical and moral centre of Paris, the capital of grief.

With La Place de l’Étoile Patrick Modiano burst onto the Parisian literary scene in 1968, winning two literary prizes, and preparing the way for The Night Watch and Ring Roads.

‘A Marcel Proust for our time’ Peter Englund, Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy

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