The writer Patrick Modiano has dedicated his literary career to probing the ghosts of wartime Paris through semi-autobiographical novels that plumb the depths of memory and childhood. The French ...
In a marvelous phrase, Erich Heller credited Franz Kafka with having achieved “the most obscure lucidity in the history of literature.” Heller’s witty oxymoron could be applied with equal justice to ...
Patrick Modiano was born in a suburb of Paris in July 1945, to Louisa Colpeyn, a Belgian actress, and Alberto Modiano, a Jewish businessman of Italian heritage. After Modiano’s only sibling, a brother ...
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