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In the Café of Lost Youth

Patrick Modiano · 2007 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

Four narrators, among them the young woman herself, piece together Louki, a regular of a Left Bank café in the early 1960s who leaves a trace but no explanation. Modiano gives it his usual Paris of uncertain pasts and lost people.

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Attributes

Genre
MysteryPsychological
Theme
Memory & TimeIdentity & SelfIsolation & AlienationLoveLoss of Innocence
Archetype (Jung / Campbell)
Wanderer
Plot type
Mystery
Form
PolyphonicNonlinear / Fractured
Symbol / motif
The City
Conflict
vs Self
Mode / tone
ElegiacLyrical
Culture / tradition
French

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