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Honeymoon

Patrick Modiano · 1990 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

A documentary filmmaker hears in a Milan hotel bar that a Frenchwoman took her own life there days earlier, recognises the name, and on reaching Paris lets his colleagues and his wife believe he has flown on to Brazil while he takes a room out in the suburbs. What he assembles there is Ingrid Teyrsen's story, a girl of eighteen who met a young man on the Riviera in 1942 and never went back for her father. Modiano returned to the disappearance at the centre of it seven years later in Dora Bruder.

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Genre
PsychologicalMystery
Theme
Memory & TimeIsolation & AlienationIdentity & SelfLoveWar & Violence
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
WandererGhost
Plot structure
Nonlinear / FracturedFrame NarrativeMystery
Symbol / motif
The CityThe SeaThe Train
Conflict
vs Selfvs Society
Mode / tone
ElegiacNoir
Culture / tradition
French

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