The Paris of Modiano: layering, sedimentation and landslides

Authors

  • Clara Levy INSTITUT D’ÉTUDES EUROPEENNES (UNIVERSITE PARIS 8) / LABTOP-CRESPPA

Keywords:

Patrick Modiano, París, memoria, Ocupación, Dora Bruder.

Abstract

The literary work of Patrick Modiano appears to be inseparable from the city of Paris, and especially from the Paris of the German occupation: the writer, his readers, his critics, and even the Swedish Academy which awarded him the Nobel Prize in 2014, unanimously agree on this point. Space and time are intimately intertwined by Patrick Modiano, and his texts often connect Paris with the historical period of the Occupation, although the city is traversed and also described in a literal way on other occasions. The author’s stylistic methods, consisting of interconnecting space and time and which blurs chronological boundaries create a nebulous, ambiguous, and indecisive image of the city, in which, as in Dora Bruder, several layers of time are superimposed.

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Author Biography

Clara Levy, INSTITUT D’ÉTUDES EUROPEENNES (UNIVERSITE PARIS 8) / LABTOP-CRESPPA

Professora de sociologia a l’Institut d’Estudis Europeus (Université Paris 8) i investigadora de Cresppa-LabToP, Clara Lévy treballa principalment en sociologia de l’art i la cultura, i més concretament en la sociologia de la literatura
i la lectura. Va publicar Écritures de l’identité. Les écrivains juifs après la Shoah, PUF, 1998. Més tard va dur a terme
una investigació sobre els llibres de capçalera, publicada amb el títol Le Roman d’une vie. Les livres de chevet et leurs lecteurs, Hermann, 2015. Actualment treballa en la investigació sobre l’escriptor P. Modiano i la fàbrica d’un Nobel.

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Published

2019-01-08

How to Cite

Levy, C. (2019) “The Paris of Modiano: layering, sedimentation and landslides”, Debats. Journal on culture, power and society, 132(2). Available at: https://revistadebats.net/article/view/1771 (Accessed: 3 July 2024).

Issue

Vol. 132 No. 2 (2018)

Section

SPECIAL ISSUE

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