Present pasts : : Patrick Modiano's (auto)biographical fictions / / Dervila Cooke.

• Superior document: Faux Titre ; Number 225
• VerfasserIn: Cooke, Dervila,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, NY : : Editions Rodopi,, 2005.
• Year of Publication: 2005
• Language: English
• Series: Faux titre ; Number 225.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This is the first in-depth study of the twelve Modiano texts specifically concerned with life-writing in autobiographical and biographical-cum-historiographical projects. The texts covered range from La Place de l'étoile (1968) through to La Petite Bijou (2001). Close textual analysis is combined with a theoretical approach based on current thinking in autobiography, biography, and reader-response. Modiano's use of autofiction and biofiction is analysed in the light of his continuing obsession with both personal trauma and History, as well as his problematic relationship with his paternally-inherited Jewish links. His view of identity (of self and other) is thus discussed in relation to a particular literary and socio-historical context- French, postmodern, post-World War II, and post-Holocaust.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- 1: Storytellers and Interpreters -- 2: Autobiography and Autofiction -- 3: The Autofictions -- 4: Self-Narration as Theme -- 5: Modiano and Biography -- 6: Biographical Creation in Les Boulevards de ceinture and Chien de printemps -- 7: Fusion and Distance: Biography in Voyage de noces and Dora Bruder -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.