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Patrick Modiano · 2005 CE · Narrative Non-fiction · French · Contemporary

Modiano's only direct memoir recounts a childhood in occupied and postwar Paris with absent, evasive parents, boarding schools and a brother he lost, up to the publication of his first novel in 1967. It reads as the key to the recurring material of his fiction, which circles the same Paris, absences and uncertain pasts.

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