Patrick Modiano / edited by John E. Flower.

• Superior document: Faux titre, 305
• TeilnehmendeR: Flower, J. E.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Faux titre ; no. 305.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Introduction /; Jardinage dans les ruines : Modiano et l’espace littéraire français contemporain /; And the “Bande” Played On: An Intertext for Patrick Modiano’s Les Boulevards de ceinture /; Une certaine presse de « plumitifs » : celle des Boulevards de ceinture /; Dora Bruder : le témoignage par le biais de la fiction /; La mémoire de la Shoah : Dora Bruder /; Secrets, fantômes et troubles de la transmission du passé dans la pratique littéraire de Patrick Modiano /; Les biographies imaginaires de Patrick Modiano : entre mythe et histoire /; Drame des origines, drame du signifiant : Accident nocturne /; Des Inconnues de Modiano ou l’esthétique du texte /; La Mère modèle dans La Petite Bijou de Modiano /; La Petite Bijou: Autofictional Translations /; Figures de la fuite chez Patrick Modiano /; Fade-Out: Patterns of Inconclusion in Modiano’s Novels /; Patrick Modiano : Le narrateur et sa disparition ou qu’y a-t-il derrière le miroir ? /; Flowers of evil, flowers of ruin: Walking in Paris with Baudelaire and Modiano /; Patrick Modiano et la littérature d’enfance : l’autre côté du miroir /; Contributors --; Index.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9401205256; 1435613309
• ISSN: 0167-9392
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by John E. Flower.

While his preoccupation with the period of the Occupation remains a permanent theme, Patrick Modiano is increasingly interested in the exploration of time and memory, and the attendant problem of reconstituting the past. This volume explores all these features. It casts new light on Modiano’s earliest novels, examines afresh his more recent work including his stories for children, situates it in the context of contemporary writing and unravels the intricacies and subtleties of his style. It underlines Modiano’s position as one of France’s major writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and will be of interest to all who are interested in the modern French novel and the complex interactions between fiction and history.