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La folie Verdier French Edition 19 Apr Corps de ballet French Edition 15 May L'espoir d'aimer en chemin Folio t. Schlemilovich inhabits anti-Semitic stereotypes in a way that allows the author to lampoon them and confront the historical reality of French anti-Semitism, something that at the time of publication was not widely acknowledged. The Gaullist myth of a country full of Resistance fighters was easier to stomach, but Modiano gleefully tears down that fantasy. The young protagonist also positions himself in relation to French intellectual history.
The book is especially a nod to Proust with themes like the idealized childhood, the passage of time, the fluidity of memory. Sep 02, Isabelle rated it it was amazing Shelves: This is one of the great books of my life, written by Patrick Modiano when he was barely 20, his first book. This is a quest of identity through being Jewish, or actually not quite so Jewish.
The narrator Rafael goes through a hallucinatory journey within himself but also with the who's who of Jewish culture, Freud and Eva Braun, for instance. I experienced this book like a punch in the stomach. I felt so relieved that someone out there could put into words the sort of confusion I felt about bei This is one of the great books of my life, written by Patrick Modiano when he was barely 20, his first book.
I felt so relieved that someone out there could put into words the sort of confusion I felt about being almost Jewish A brilliant but ultimately depressing novel that is a fantasia of frustrated revenge, self-loathing and ironic bitterness concerned with the German occupation of France during WWII and the murderous treatment of the Jewish people and the desperate cynicism of the collaborators. I have rarely read a novel filled with such barely controlled anger, but this anger is used as a motive force to embark on a wild flight of fantasy, part memoir, part grandiose daydream, part nightmare, which is by turns A brilliant but ultimately depressing novel that is a fantasia of frustrated revenge, self-loathing and ironic bitterness concerned with the German occupation of France during WWII and the murderous treatment of the Jewish people and the desperate cynicism of the collaborators.
I have rarely read a novel filled with such barely controlled anger, but this anger is used as a motive force to embark on a wild flight of fantasy, part memoir, part grandiose daydream, part nightmare, which is by turns savage, masochistic, melancholy, fatalistic and rebellious. This novel is a satire but one that owes more to Celine who is mercilessly parodied throughout than to any humourist.
Certainly I will read more Modiano in the future, probably the next two volumes of the 'Occupation Trilogy', of which this is the first, but I need to pause for breath first Just didn't get it. T'es sensible et timide, visiblement. Encore dans ce roman, ton premier, ton ouvrage le plus radical, aussi.
T'as la vie devant toi. Je donnerais tous tes romans sombres sur l'Occupation et le statut juif pour un livre comme "Un cirque passe". Ou comme "La Petite Bijou".
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Feb 25, Guillaume Narbonne rated it liked it. The unreliable narrator device is pushed to its limits in this rich book by Modiano, his first one and in which we can already see him articulate, albeit awkwardly, the themes that will recur in his later novels. The hero and narrator most of the time lives multiple lives in one, experiencing neurosis after neurosis while getting close to some of the most infamous figur The unreliable narrator device is pushed to its limits in this rich book by Modiano, his first one and in which we can already see him articulate, albeit awkwardly, the themes that will recur in his later novels.
The hero and narrator most of the time lives multiple lives in one, experiencing neurosis after neurosis while getting close to some of the most infamous figures in history, claiming and hating his Jewish identity. The themes of the novel are multiple, but most of all it is the question of identity which emerges time and again.
The free flowing narrative style, along with the multiple intentional contradictions in the plot, make the book weirdly engaging and confusing at the same time, while giving the overall impression that the point may eventually have been missed.
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In the end, I am not quite sure whether to give this book 1 or 5 stars, which is why I so bravely compromise with this 3. Mar 24, winda added it Shelves: I think need reread again, after gain better historical backgrounds or after broaden my literacy knowledge or a bit French or must be accompanied with dictionaries and Google, or reading together with a friend to discussed puzzling things. As La Place de l'Etoile untranslated, lot of things in this book I need to figure out the meaning but Not, i didn't bother to know.
End up with confusions strucks me. Aug 11, Kenneth Shersley rated it liked it. If I'd had a clue what was going for much of the time, I'd have given four stars. Not that this is necessarily a fault with the book, which, if I've got the right end of the stick has a lot to do with the disorientation and duplicity imposed on ordinary people by the perverse conditions of war - in this case WW2. Deception, disguise, role-playing - secret police, secret resistance movements, secret secret secret. Brilliantly written, a remarkable achievement for a 22 year-old. Oct 02, Greta rated it liked it. Modiano's first novel, La Place de l'Etoile, is not like any of his later stories except that they all make a connection to Paris.
This story has several different topics, including the Nazi Occupation of Paris and French literature written by those who are "French Jews". Wild, provokant, assoziativ - Modianos Erstling war bei Erscheinen eine Sensation. Dabei geht es ohne stringente Handlung um den "ewigen Juden", um das von Nazis besetzte Frankreich und um die vermeintliche Zuflucht Israel hier als die Intelligenzia verac Wild, provokant, assoziativ - Modianos Erstling war bei Erscheinen eine Sensation.
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Jan 16, Christy rated it liked it Shelves: This is a disturbing book! The sooner you realize the narrator is totally off his rocker the better it will go for you. He hates himself, but he hates who he becomes when he denies himself too. He wanders thru time and place, disconnected from everything. Not even the supposed homeland set up for him will accept him.
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He thinks he is at his best when he collaborates with his worst enemies, even though in his mad ramblings they kill him over and over. The end result is very murky, the author never This is a disturbing book! The end result is very murky, the author never anchors anywhere long enough for you to feel sympathy, except maybe with the narrator's first love who commits suicide and is referenced again and again.
I think I'm glad it's over. The American reader would certainly benefit from having Wiki open in front of you as an in depth understanding of French WWII era politics and literature is assumed. Je vais continuer avec Dora Bruder. The name dropping of endless french names with contemporary cultural significance got a bit tedious.
But the fragmentation of identity and linear time added some spice and it was an interesting read in the end. Feb 11, Philippe Malzieu rated it liked it. It is the first Modiano's book I read. It's not the one I prefere. We find all the recurrent themes which will haunt its books: Schoah, Nazism, identity, filiation It is magnificiently well written, Paris ever was so beautiful, but that does not function for me.
I didn't find this an enjoying read.
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To me it was strange and off-putting. I also felt that it requires a good deal of literary and historical knowledge of France and Jewish figures throughout history.
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Aug 21, James F rated it liked it. When Modiano won the Nobel Prize in Literature three years back I read a single-volume collection of ten of his novels all his novels are short, barely meeting the definition of a novel as opposed to a novella. This month I got around to going back and starting his first books, which made his reputation in France. This was his first book and the first of his Occupation Trilogy.
Actually, this first book is not exactly set during the Occupation, but as with many of his later novels as well ha When Modiano won the Nobel Prize in Literature three years back I read a single-volume collection of ten of his novels all his novels are short, barely meeting the definition of a novel as opposed to a novella. Actually, this first book is not exactly set during the Occupation, but as with many of his later novels as well has a protagonist with a major obsession with and false memories of the Occupation. It was published at a time when a younger and radicalizing generation of French students was beginning to see through the official World War II mythology about the Occupation and the Resistance and ask questions about Vichy and the collaboration of the French bourgeoisie with the Nazis.
Modiano's father, with whom he had a rather distant emotional relationship, was a black-marketeer during the Occupation, with a dubious relationship to the Germans; the same is or rather may be true for Schlemilovich and the protagonists of many of Modiano's later books.
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Schlemilovich senior, having abandoned his wife and son after the war, is supposedly living in New York manufacturing kaleidoscopes; in one episode of the novel the protagonist's girlfriend lives in an apartment full of kaleidoscopes, and the one she shows him is based on a human face. Of course this is symbolic; his novels, each one in itself and even more all of them taken as a whole, form a kaleidoscopic autobiography in which identity and memory are constantly shifting and we are never sure who anybody really is -- to be sure, the protagonists themselves often named "Patrick Modiano" seldom know who they really are.
So, the protagonist here who is also the first person narrator, although he sometimes shifts abruptly to third or even second person is obviously both obsessed with the Occupation period and out of touch with reality; the narration is composed mainly of fantasies or hallucinations, and we are never certain what if anything at all is "real" and what is "fantasy".
Actually the historical Sachs did not live through the war, but Modiano is not concerned with facts here, and the meeting with him is possibly the first of the protagonist's fantasies. Slightly later on, he inherits a large amount of money from a relative on his mother's side and uses it to bring his father back to Europe.
He makes his father's fortune and the two live a life together for a while pretending to be conservative provincials from rural France coming to the city to make their fortunes he compares himself to Rastignac, the character in Balzac. Of course, his father's history is similar to that of Sachs and of Modiano's father, as a black-marketeer under the Occupation. Presumably Schlemilovich doesn't actually know who or where his father is and this whole episode is just a fantasy; it ends with him sending his father back to New York, abandoning him as he was abandoned by him.
I am tempted to follow along with all the episodes of fantasy, but that would mean marking the whole review as spoilers. It is enough to say that they become progressively less realistic, and he often becomes his father as a collaborator during the Occupation and at one point he even seems to remember being Dreyfus in the nineteenth century.
At the same time, figures from the Occupation period appear in his present day fantasies and figures from the present day appear in his "past".