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Nobelistin haikea Pariisi-romaaniMuistamisen taituriksi luonnehdittu Modiano yrittää ratkoa Pariisin arvoituksia, joista tässä kirjassa keskeiseksi nousee 1960-luvulla tapahtunut murha.Pariisi on täynnä haamuja, ihmiset muuttavat, katoavat, ja puhelin soi usein tyhjyyteen. Nobelisti Patrick Modiano johdattaa lukijan kaupunkikävelylle halki aikojen.”...olen kohdannut Pariisin kaduilla monta kertaa samoja ihmisiä, täysin tuntemattomia ihmisiä. ... Hämmentävintä on se, että olen usein kohdannut saman ihmisen kaukana eri korttelissa, ikään kuin kohtalo - tai sattuma - olisi halunnut meidän tutustuvan toisiimme. Ja joka kerta minua on kaduttanut, kun olen päästänyt hänet ohitseni mitään sanomatta. Risteyksestä lähtee useita teitä, ja minä olen jättänyt seuraamatta yhtä niistä, sitä joka olisi saattanut olla juuri se oikea. Lohdutukseksi olen kirjoittanut huolellisesti muistivihkoihini nuo tyhjiin rauenneet kohtaamiset, kirjannut tarkan sijainnin ja niiden nimettömien ihmisten ulkonäön. Pariisi on sillä lailla täynnä herkkiä kohtia ja niitä moninaisia muotoja, jotka elämämme olisi voinut saada.”Patrick Modianon (s. 1945) romaanit käsittelevät menneisyyden vaikutusta identiteettiin ja muistin häilyvyyttä. Nelisenkymmentä teosta kirjoittanut Modiano kertookin kirjoittavansa oikeastaan jatkuvasti samaa kirjaa, mutta katkonaisesti. Hänelle on pitkän uransa aikana myönnetty mm. Ranskan akatemian romaanipalkinto 1972, Prix Goncourt -palkinto 1978 ja kirjallisuuden Nobel-palkinto 2014.
Nobelistin aavemainen romaani luotaa ajan ja muistin arvoituksia.”Ja koska menneisyyttä ei voisi elää uudelleen eikä oikaista, paras tapa tehdä haamut lopullisesti harmittomiksi ja pitää ne loitolla olisi muuntaa ne romaanihenkilöiksi.”Chevreusen vuodet kuvaa lapsuuden outojen tapahtumien pitkiä jälkimaininkeja. Parikymppinen Jean Bosmans kokee sarjan hermostuttavia yhteensattumia, joihin liittyy katoilevainen nainen, Jeanin oma lapsuudenkoti Chevreusessa ja joukko levottomuutta herättäviä hahmoja, jotka ovat kiinnostuneita hänen menneisyydestään. Jeanin kuulostellessa muistin kaikuja mennyt ja nykyhetki punoutuvat hetki hetkeltä lujemmin toisiinsa ja muodostavat lopulta verkon, joka kattaa puoli vuosisataa.Patrick Modiano syntyi Pariisissa heinäkuussa 1945. Hänen tuotantonsa käsittää romaanien lisäksi elokuvakäsikirjoituksia, laulunsanoituksia ja esseitä. Lukuisia ranskalaisia ja kansainvälisiä tunnustuksia saaneen kirjailijan ura huipentui vuoden 2014 Nobelin kirjallisuuspalkintoon. Chevreusen vuodet (Chevreuse, 2021) on hänen 30. romaaninsa.
An engrossing mystery of a life from master storyteller Patrick Modiano: winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Jean B., the narrator of Patrick Modiano's Honeymoon, is submerged in a world where day and night, past and present, have no demarcations. Having spent his adult life making documentary films about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career, and takes what seems to be a journey to nowhere. He pretends to fly to Rio to make another film, but instead returns to his own Parisian suburb to spend his solitary days recounting or imagining the lives of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he had met twenty years before, and in whom he had recognized a spiritual anomie that seemed to reflect and justify his own. Little by little, their story takes on more reality than Jean's daily existence, as his excavation of the past slowly becomes an all-encompassing obsession. The New Yorker wrote, "Turning to invention to get at deeper realities of experience is fiction's righteous mission, and Honeymoon performs it beautifully. We all hold the keys to mysteries of our own making, Modiano tells us. If only we knew where we hid them." This is a singular literary experience, a masterpiece of world literature.
The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Étoile - The Night Watch - Ring Roads
Patrick Modiano
Bloomsbury USA
2015
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Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano's first three novels, about Paris under Nazi occupation, now in a single volume; the earliest--La Place de l' toile--in English for the first time. Born at the close of World War II, 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano was a young man in his twenties when he burst onto the Parisian literary scene with these three brilliant, angry novels about the wartime Occupation of Paris. The epigraph to his first novel, among the first to seriously question Nazi collaboration in France, reads: "In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man and says: 'Excuse me, monsieur, where is La Place de l' toile' The young man points to the star on his chest." The second novel, The Night Watch, tells the story of a young man caught between his work for the French Gestapo, his work for a Resistance cell, and the black marketeers whose milieu he shares. Ring Roads recounts a son's search for his Jewish father who disappeared ten years earlier, whom he finds trying to weather the war in service to unsavory characters. Together these three brilliant, almost hallucinatory evocations of the Occupation attempt to exorcise the past by exploring the morally ambiguous worlds of collaboration and resistance. Award-winning translator Frank Wynne has revised the translations of The Night Watch and Ring Roads--long out of print--for our current day, and brings La Place de l' toile into English for the first time. The Occupation Trilogy provides the perfect introduction to one of the world's greatest writers.
An accident, a vanishing, a memory gap, a strange dream: a classic noir work of fiction by Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano This uneasy, compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of Paris. The unnamed narrator, a teenage boy, is hit by a car whose driver he vaguely recalls having met before. The mysterious ensuing events, involving a police van, a dose of ether, awakening in a strange hospital, and the disappearance of the woman driver, culminate in a packet being pressed into the boy's hand. It is an envelope stuffed full of bank notes. The confusion only deepens as the characters grow increasingly apprehensive; meanwhile, readers are held spellbound. Modiano's low-key writing style, his preoccupation with memory and its untrustworthiness, and his deep concern with timeless moral questions have earned him an international audience of devoted readers. This beautifully rendered translation brings another of his finest works to an eagerly waiting English-language audience. Paris Nocturne has been named "a perfect book" by Lib ration, while L'Express observes, "Paris Nocturne is cloaked in darkness, but it is a novel that is turned toward the light."
Kaheksateistkümneaastane noormees - minajutustaja - silmab politsei kabinetist küsitluselt väljudes koridoris oma järge ootavat paar aastat vanemat neiut. Nende pilgud kohtuvad. Ta jääb neiut politseimaja lähedale kohvikusse ootama. Lõpuks see tuleb, istub tema lauda nagu oleksidki nad pidanud seal kokku saama. Pärast lühikest vestlust küsib neiu: "Kas te osutaksite mulle ühe teene?" Ehtmodianolik algus ja edasigi läheb kõik tuttavlikus laadis: mitu ajaplaani, üksildane usalduslik nooruke peategelane, salapärane tüdruk, kahtlased uued tuttavad, lugemisel ei-tea-millest sugenev ärev eelaimus. Ning kõige taustaks justkui kõigi meeltega tajutav 60ndate Pariis. "Tsirkus ..." on ennekõike romaan hingeseisundist, mis söövitab mõne koha, mõne päeva mällu nii rohkete kildudena, et neid jätkub südant verele kriipima kauaks ajaks. Ja kes veel kui mitte Patrick Modiano, 2014. aastal oma erakordse "mälukunsti" eest Nobeli kirjandusauhinnaga pärjatud stiilimeister, oskaks sellistest sageli juba hägustest, ent ikka veel armistumata mälestustest luua õdusalt melanhoolse vaikse muusika, mis kõlab nii paljudes tema romaanides. Raamatu väljaandmist on toetanud Eesti Kultuurkapital.
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano’s spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a series of exquisitely crafted stories about such jettisoned boys at the exclusive Valvert School on the outskirts of Paris: abandoned children of privilege, left to create new family ties among themselves. Misfits and heroes, sports champions and good-hearted chums, the boys of Valvert misbehave, run away, get expelled, and engage in various forms of delinquency and disappearance. They emerge into adulthood tragically damaged, still tethered to their adolescent selves, powerless to escape the central loneliness of their lives in an ever-darkening spiral of self-delusion and grim consequence. A meditation on nostalgia, the pitfalls of privilege, and the vicissitudes of fate, this book fully demonstrates the powerful mix of sadness, mystery, wonder, and ominous danger that characterizes Modiano’s most rewarding fiction. Special feature: J. M. G. Le Clézio’s foreword, here in English for the first time, provides a rare and insightful appreciation of one Nobel laureate by another.
In 1988 Patrick Modiano stumbles across an ad in the personal columns of the New Year's Eve 1941 edition of Paris Soir: "Missing, a young girl, Dora Bruder, age 15, height 1 m 55, oval-shaped face, gray-brown eyes, gray sports jacket, maroon pullover, navy blue skirt and hat, brown gym shoes." Placed by the parents of Dora, who had run away from her Catholic boarding school, the ad sets Modiano off on a quest to find out everything he can about her and why, at the height of German reprisals, she ran away from the people hiding her. There is only one other official mention of her name: on a list of Jews deported from Paris to Auschwitz in September 1942. What little Modiano discovers about Dora in official records and through remaining family members becomes a meditation on the immense losses of the period - lost people, lost stories, and lost history. Modiano delivers a moving account of the ten-year investigation that took him back to the sights and sounds of Paris under the Nazi Occupation and the paranoia of the Petain regime. In his efforts to exhume her from the past, Modiano realizes that he must come to terms with the specters of his own troubled adolescence.The result, a montage of creative and historical material, is Modiano's personal rumination on loss, both memoir and memorial.
28 Paradises is a rare book: it reveals not only the individual talents of the authors, Modiano and Zehrfuss, but also the depth of the couple’s creative union. Sensitively translated into English for the first time by Damion Searls, 28 Paradises captures the exquisite sadness of waking from a beautiful dream. There are twenty-eight dreams in this book, or perhaps one dream in twenty-eight parts—visions of paradise imagined by Zehrfuss during a time of deep sadness. Captured first in Zehrfuss’s brightly colored gouaches, each paradise was then refashioned as a poem by Modiano. Zehrfuss’s paintings are Edens in miniature, and rather than describe them outright, Modiano dreams himself into these reveries in quiet, understated verse. The reader enters this shared realm in an experience less like paging through a book and more like slipping into a shared world. These paradises are wishes for moments when a painting, or a poem, or a lover—perhaps they are not so different—relieves the loneliness of being human. As Modiano writes with a touch of wistfulness, “The Lilliputian painted her paradises / And I / Next to her / Wrote a poem.” A pure example of ekphrastic writing—poetry inspired by paintings— this book shows how writing and visual art can together create a unique emotional experience.First published by Editions de l’Olivier/ Le Seuil in 2005
Fortælleren Jean mindes en lille gruppe mennesker han omgik i sin tidlige ungdom. Det startede med den lidt ældre kollega Georges Bellune på det musikforlag hvor de arbejdede. Bellune tog ham med til middagsselskaber hos parret Paul og Maddy Contour, et stilfuldt ægtepar der levede over deres økonomiske formåen. Hun var en tidligere model for et parisisk modehus, han en tidligere advokat med fejlslagne investeringer i bagagen, begge solbrune, sporty, med en skøn lejlighed. Og Jean mindes Contour-parrets husven, chauffør og privatsekretær, amerikaneren Doug, som var kommet med den amerikanske hær og blev hængende efter befrielsen af Paris. Og han mindes flere andre fra den lille flok, hver med deres historier, særheder, fortider, nogle med ideer om projekter og om fremtiden. Der var drinks og middage, udflugter og underholdning, og weekender i Contour-parrets hus på landet. Her underholdt Doug med sin guitar og sangen Memory Lane, som handler om heste man ser løbe i daggryet og som aldrig kommer tilbage – et minde om Paul Contours handel med væddeløbsheste.PATRICK MODIANO, f. 1945, er en fransk forfatter og modtog i 2014 Nobelprisen i litteratur for sin »erindringskunst som han bruger til at fremkalde de mest uhåndgribelige menneskeskæbner og afdække livet under besættelsen«.Patrick Modianos romaner foregår oftest i og omkring Paris, men byen optræder som mere end bare kulisse, da dens atmosfære og forandring ofte spiller en væsentlig rolle i romanerne. En kritiker skrev engang: »Patrick Modiano er for Paris, hvad Woody Allen er for New York: en hukommelse og en samvittighed.«
