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The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l´Etoile - The Night Watch - Ring Roads
Patrick Modiano
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Description for The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l´Etoile - The Night Watch - Ring Roads
Paperback. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: FJMS; FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
'Brisk, smart, witty, elliptical ... Recalls the directors of the New Wave ... Bracing and brilliant'Independent 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 in 1945, Modiano's brilliant, angry writings burst onto the Parisian literary scene and caused a storm. His first, ferociously satirical novel, La Place de l'Etoile, was remarkable in seriously questioning both Nazi collaboration in France and the myths of the Gaullist era. The Night ... Read more
'Brisk, smart, witty, elliptical ... Recalls the directors of the New Wave ... Bracing and brilliant'Independent 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 in 1945, Modiano's brilliant, angry writings burst onto the Parisian literary scene and caused a storm. His first, ferociously satirical novel, La Place de l'Etoile, was remarkable in seriously questioning both Nazi collaboration in France and the myths of the Gaullist era. The Night ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781408867884
SKU
V9781408867884
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99-50
About Patrick Modiano
Patrick Modiano was born in Paris in 1945 in the immediate aftermath of World War Two and the Nazi occupation of France, a dark period which continues to haunt him. After passing his baccalaureat, he left full-time education and dedicated himself to writing, encouraged by the French writer Raymond Queneau. From his very first book to his most recent, Modiano ... Read more
Reviews for The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l´Etoile - The Night Watch - Ring Roads
A swirling cacophony of characters in the tense, nervily hysterical world of the shady near-criminal types who stayed behind in Paris after the Nazis arrived ... Powerfully Pinteresque, as characters bristle with menace and barely-contained violence
Sunday Times
Like a cartoon strip in prose, caricatural and explosive ... A disturbing evocation of the terror and treachery of the ... Read more
Sunday Times
Like a cartoon strip in prose, caricatural and explosive ... A disturbing evocation of the terror and treachery of the ... Read more