In the Cafe of Lost Youth - Couverture souple

Modiano, Patrick

 
9781590179536: In the Cafe of Lost Youth
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1590179536 ISBN 13 : 9781590179536
Editeur : New York Review of Books, 2016

Synopsis

NYRB Classics Original
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature

In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, inspired in part by the circle (depicted in the photographs of Ed van der Elsken) of the notorious and charismatic Guy Debord, centers on the enigmatic, waiflike figure of Louki, who catches everyone's attention even as she eludes possession or comprehension. Through the eyes of four very different narrators, including Louki herself, we contemplate her character and her fate, while Modiano explores the themes of identity, memory, time, and forgetting that are at the heart of his spellbinding and deeply moving art.

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À propos de l?auteur

Patrick Modiano was born in the Boulogne-Billancourt suburb of Paris near the end of the Nazi occupation of France. He studied at the Lycée Henri-IV and the Sorbonne. As a teenager he took geometry lessons with the writer Raymond Queneau, who would play a key role in his development. He has written more than thirty works of fiction, including novels, children's books, and the screenplay for Louis Malle's film Lacombe, Lucien. In 2014, Modiano won the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Chris Clarke was born and raised in British Columbia, Canada, and lives and works in and around New York City. His published translations include work by Oulipo members Raymond Queneau and Olivier Salon. He currently teaches French and is translating a novel by Pierre Mac Orlan, which will be published in 2016.

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Éditeur
New York Review of Books
Date d'édition
2016
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1590179536
ISBN 13 
9781590179536
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
128
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780857055286: In the Café of Lost Youth

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0857055283 ISBN 13 :  9780857055286
Editeur : MacLehose Press, 2017
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