'Brisk, smart, witty, elliptical ... Recalls the directors of the
New Wave ... Bracing and brilliant'Independent When Patrick Modiano
was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for
using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris
during the Second World War. Born in 1945, Modiano's brilliant,
angry writings burst onto the Parisian literary scene and caused a
storm. His first, ferociously satirical novel, La Place de
l'Etoile, was remarkable in seriously questioning both Nazi
collaboration in France and the myths of the Gaullist era. The
Night Watch tells the story of a man caught between his work for
the French Gestapo and for a Resistance cell. Ring Roads recounts a
son's search for his Jewish father, who disappeared ten years
previously. These brilliant, almost hallucinatory, evocations of
the Occupation attempt to exorcise the past by exploring the
morally ambiguous worlds of collaboration and resistance.
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