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In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin—represents a sterling example of the author’s originality and appeal, while Mark Polizzotti’s superb English-language translations capture not only Modiano’s distinctive narrative voice but also the matchless grace and spare beauty of his prose.
Although originally published separately, Modiano’s three novellas form a single, compelling whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of others, to present a dreamlike autobiography that is also the biography of a place. Orphaned children, mysterious parents, forgotten friends, enigmatic strangers—each appears in this three-part love song to a Paris that no longer exists.
Shadowed by the dark period of the Nazi Occupation, these novellas reveal Modiano’s fascination with the lost, obscure, or mysterious: a young person’s confusion over adult behavior; the repercussions of a chance encounter; the search for a missing father; the aftershock of a fatal affair. To read Modiano’s trilogy is to enter his world of uncertainties and the almost accidental way in which people find their fates.
- Sales Rank: #105501 in eBooks
- Published on: 2014-11-11
- Released on: 2014-10-28
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review
''Reading Modiano is like experiencing a very specific flavor you don't encounter every day - saffron or asafetida, say. He's direct and precise but also gently melancholy, like the squeezed essence of passing time. Mark Polizzotti's translation expertly catches the timbre of his voice.'' --Luc Sante, award-winning writer and critic
''Completely, insouciantly, Modiano describes the interiors and essential matter of the French literary imagination. In these fictions, the sworn bewilderment of intimacy as cause and quest and actual topography of narrative becomes an inexhaustible source. And from that source there flows a riverine voice of legends and documentary legerdemain: always candid, always fitly perplexed. In the three novellas gathered as Suspended Sentences, this voice elapses across Paris as it never was yet somehow must have been. Otherwise, there could be no accounting for acrobats, for Edith Piaf, for collaboration and liberation and the spring of 1968. All of these and more Modiano addresses with a luminous bewilderment more intimately exacting and more precise than any certainty could be.'' --Donald Revell, author of Pennyweight Windows
''These three atmospheric novellas demonstrate the range of reading pleasure afforded by Modiano's approach and the dark romance of his Paris . . . Each first-person novella is also a portrait of the artist.'' --Publishers Weekly
About the Author
Patrick Modiano is a bestselling novelist and the winner of some of the most prestigious literary awards in France, including the Prix Goncourt and the Prix Mondial Cino Del Duca for lifetime achievement. In 2014 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for ''the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.''
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61 of 62 people found the following review helpful.
As in a Dream
By Roger Brunyate
Reading these three novellas (57, 67, and 80 pages respectively) was one of the stranger experiences I have had for some time. Every few pages, I found myself slipping into a kind of waking dream, in which the facts of the text would shimmer and rearrange themselves into something that was not in the text at all. Yes, I was tired. But even after an ample nap, I found the same thing happening. I can only conclude that it is an intended feature of Modiano's style. His narrators, like memory detectives, summon the names of places, people, and half-remembered details, but the result is not so much to clarify the past as to cloak it in still more mystery. It always surprised me when I came upon some reference to the afternoon hour or the bright sun, because all these memories gave the sensation of taking place in darkness, under cover of night and fog.
As soon as Modiano's Nobel Prize was announced, I bought the first book I could get my hands on, RUE DES BOUTIQUES OBSCURES (translated as MISSING PERSON), in which a private detective with amnesia investigates the mystery of his own past. I found it an easy read (even in French) and a fine introduction to the author, but suspected that I would need to read more, since the prize was awarded for the body of his work rather than a single book. So I ordered another in French (not yet arrived) and these three in the fine English translation of Mark Polizziotti. The paradoxical result has been to confirm my suspicion about the wholeness of Modiano's oeuvre while still further blurring the nature of it... unless its essence is blur itself. I began to notice proper names cropping up in the novellas that I remembered from the novel, and after a while it became difficult to recall in which of the three stories a person, place, or event was first mentioned. Yet this is not surprising. The place is always Paris, especially its stairs, dark passages, and suburbs where tourists seldom go. And Modiano has said that all his fiction, regardless of its packaging, is "a kind of autobiography, but one that is dreamed up or imaginary."
"Afterimage," the first novella in this collection (though the last to be published), sets down the narrator's memories of a largely forgotten photographer. Meeting him as a young man, he offers to catalogue his enigmatic photos of the Thirties and Forties, shortly before the artist himself leaves Paris and disappears. It is a story less important for the secrets it reveals than for the sad awareness that future generations may not even know that secrets existed. "Suspended Sentences," the second novella, is more frankly a childhood memoir. The narrator (called by his nickname Patoche) and his brother are sent to live with three women in a distant suburb while their mother is on an extended theatrical tour. Their own childhood mysteries (for example about the deserted chateau at the edge of the village) interlace gradually with real adult mysteries about the strange people who come to the house, and mysterious trips into Paris by sports car. "Flowers of Ruin," the final piece, begins with accounts of an unsolved murder from the Thirties. As the narrator tries to investigate it, it too combines with mysteries he discovers in his own time -- such as a Peruvian who sometimes passes himself off as a French Count, but whom the records show as having died at Dachau. The translator, in his excellent introduction, quotes Modiano as saying, "The more obscure and mysterious things remained, the more interested I became in them. I even looked for mystery where there was none."
Although these are not primarily Holocaust books, their mysteries all go back to the period of the German occupation of Paris, which ended just before the author was born. I suspect that many of the names and places mentioned would have associations with older French readers that the most of us miss. For example, there is mention in several stories of the "Rue Lauriston gang." Google the street, and you will find one of the dirtier French secrets of the war. A secret in which Modiano's father appears to have been involved. A Jew, he was arrested and briefly imprisoned, but subsequently released. Why, and what did he have to do to stay free? All of Modiano's work that I have read so far or read about seems to be an indirect investigation of those mysteries. An investigation and an atonement.
"I hadn't moved from the window. Under the pouring rain, he crossed the street and went to lean against the retaining wall of the steps we had walked down shortly before. And he stood there, unmoving, his back against the wall, his head raised toward the building façade. Rainwater poured onto him from the top of the steps, and his jacket was drenched. But he did not move an inch. At that moment a phenomenon occurred for which I'm still trying to find an explanation: had the street lamp at the top of the steps suddenly gone out? Little by little, the man melted into the wall. Or else the rain, from falling on him so heavily, had dissolved him, the way water dilutes a fresco that hasn't had time to dry properly. As hard as I pressed my forehead against the glass and peered at the dark gray wall, no trace of him remained. He had vanished in that sudden way that I'd later notice in other people, like my father, which leaves you so puzzled that you have no choice but to look for proofs and clues to convince yourself these people had really existed."
40 of 46 people found the following review helpful.
I loved it. It’s not for everyone
By William R. Shadbolt
I’ve heard Modiano is an acquired taste, and after this book of novellas (all originally published separately in France), it’s not hard to see why. I wouldn’t call these stories so much as reminisces, meditations on a memory from long ago and seeing what else it conjures up, following the memories to their ends, which are usually brought about more by forgetting the rest or time wiping away any other clues about people the narrator once knew. Despite this unorthodox approach to story telling, I loved it. It’s not for everyone, especially these novellas, which seem to be minor works, and although this was my first outing with the author, I’d probably recommend a more widely known book (like Missing Person, which I unfortunately have not had the chance to read, c’mon Amazon, put it up for the Kindle already!). It’s too bad the rating bar is only 1-5, because for me this book isn’t quite a 5 but a definite high 4.
As others online have said, the first two novellas are quite good. At first they might seem disappointing, as they raise a lot of questions and then end with hardly any of them answered. But these stories linger in your mind. They also slowly build up, adding to each other to form a powerful cumulative effect. After the first story, Afterimage, about a man trying to recollect and gather everything about a photographer who wanted to be forgotten, I was left thinking, “That’s it?” After the second one, about two boys who are raised by a suspicious group of their parents’ friends while their guardians are off exploring the world, left me with a similar feeling, but also a desire for more.
And the last one, entitled Flowers of Ruin, seems to be the least popular of the bunch, but I liked it a lot. What starts out as an investigation into a double lovers’ suicide that happened some years ago instead becomes a reflection of all the old buildings in Paris: all the history they’ve seen that links people together and how these sites are being torn down to make way for McDonald’s and other such chains. This is where the cumulative effect starts to show, as characters and events that occurred in the other novellas bleed into this one—I’ve been told that each Modiano book could be said to be a chapter in one large book, and already after these I’d have to agree. I can see why some might dislike Flowers of Ruin, and there is a lot about it that shouldn’t work, but Modiano’s crisp prose style, understated yet poetic, filled with descriptions and phrases as fleeting as memories, keeps it all fresh.
Final thoughts: if you’re hesitant about Modiano, this is probably not the place to start. If you’ve read one of his better known works and are intrigued, then go for it. I’ve read that Modiano only gets better the more you read by him, and already after just this collection I can vouch for that claim. And if you’re desperate to read something by the author and can’t find anything else, go for it. Just give him another chance if it doesn’t strike your fancy.
Can’t wait to get my hands on some of his other stuff!
30 of 34 people found the following review helpful.
the descriptions of the streets of Paris or a small town near Paris resonate with a clearness that allows you feel what it was l
By Angela
I had not heard of Patrick Modiano until he recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature, so I was naturally curious and jumped at the chance to read an advance copy of this book before the publication of it’s translation in November. The book consists of three novellas, “Afterimage,” “Suspended Sentences”, and “Flowers of Ruin”.
I don’t read French, but I was taken by the language in the first and second pieces, so I guess that’s a tribute to the translator, Mark Polizzotti. A sadness and a vagueness seems to pervade stories with the narrator of each trying to remember people and events from their past. Yet in spite of the vague feeling, the descriptions of the streets of Paris or a small town near Paris resonate with a clearness that allows you feel what it was like to be there.
I had the feeling throughout that there was something mysterious about the people of the past, something not fully told. All are about someone trying remembering the past but it’s hard to know if these narrators are reliable. In the first story, “ Afterimage”, it’s hard to know why Francis Jansen, a photographer just wants to remain unknown, even when our narrator thinks that Jansen’s work is good enough to be cataloged and written about. Then we discover that he has been in an internment camp and we learn of an illicit affair with a young married woman.
In “Suspended Sentences”, I was especially impressed with the descriptions of the streets of Paris streets with shops and cafes. The young boy, too naïve to understand about the gang of people that were caring for him, was a sympathetic character.
I got lost in the last story, which started out with our narrator remembering a double suicide of a young husband and wife. About halfway through I just became a bit confused about the all of the people that begin to inhabit the narrator’s memory. I really didn’t follow it.
In any event, I learned a little about Modiano’s writing. I liked the language but not sure if I really understood what he was trying to say. I gave it three stars because I was taken enough by the writing to maybe try one of his full length novels if there is an English translation made available.
Thanks to Yale University Press and NetGalley.
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