In 1988 Patrick Modiano stumbled across an ad between the stock
market report and a story of a school visit to Marechal Petain in
the personal columns of Paris Soir from December 31, 1941: "We are
looking for a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15 years old, five feet
tall, round face, gray-brown eyes, gray sportscoat, burgundy
pullover, navy blue hat and skirt, brown athletic shoes. Send all
information to Mr. and Mrs. Bruder, 41, Boulevard Ornano,
Paris."
Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl who had run away
from her convent school just before New Year's Eve, this ad set
Modiano on a quest to find out everything he could about Dora
Bruder and why she ran away from the Catholic boarding school that
had been hiding her. He found only one other official mention of
her name: on a list of Jews deported from Paris to Auschwitz in
September 1942.
With no knowledge of Dora Bruder aside from these two records of
disappearances, Modiano continued to dig for fragments from Dora's
past. What little he found in official records or through remaining
family members, Modiano transforms into a meditation on the immense
losses of the period--lost people, lost stories, and lost history.
As he tries to find connections to Dora, Modiano delivers a moving
account of the ten-year investigation that took him back to the
sights and sounds of Paris under the Occupation and the paranoia of
the Petain regime. In his efforts to exhume her from the past,
Modiano realizes that he must come to terms with the specters of
his own troubled adolescence. The result is a montage of creative
and historical material that unfolds as a moving rumination on
loss.
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