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1. La Place de l'Étoile

   • Patrick Modiano

   • 152 strony
   • 6 godzin czytania

   Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation. We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphael Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing, who may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune, may have lived during the Nazi Occupation, may have rubbed shoulders with the most notorious collaborators and anti-Semites of the time, may even have been the lover of Eva Braun...or he may have been none of these things. But at the centre of this vortex is 'La Place de l'Etoile' - the Place of the Star - which is both the geographical and moral centre of Paris, and that place next the heart where French Jews were compelled to wear the yellow star, the symbol of their persecution.

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2. Nawroty nocy

   • Patrick Modiano

   • 160 stron
   • 6 godzin czytania

   Decyzja została podjęta. Wyboru dokonał los, B�g albo historia. To nie jest ważne. Ważne, jak zachowa się człowiek w samym środku okupacyjnego piekła. Może być zdrajcą, bohaterem albo nikim. Rozdarty między dwoma światami, zawieszony na granicy między świadomością a szaleństwem, wsp�łpracuje jednocześnie z francuskim Gestapo i ruchem oporu i nie potrafi wyzwolić się z objęć obłąkanej historii. Modiano z czułością i odrobiną okrucieństwa przygląda się swoim bohaterom. Ze ślad�w, zapach�w i dźwięk�w pr�buje wyczarować przeszłość i wyłuskać z niej prawdę o świecie.

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3. Ring Roads

   • Patrick Modiano

   • 148 stron
   • 6 godzin czytania

   Ring Roads, for which Modiano was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman (1972), is the story of a young Jew, Serge, in search of his father, Chalva, who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds him trying to survive the war years in the unlikely company of black marketeers, anti-Semites and prostitutes, putting his meagre and not entirely orthodox business skills at the service of those who have no interest in him or his survival. Ring Roads is a brilliant, almost hallucinatory evocation of the uneasy, corrupt years of the Occupation and like The Night Watch is both cruel and tender - savage in its depiction of the anti-Semitic newspaper editor, the bullying ex-Foreign Legionnaire and the former prostitute, who treat Chalva with ever more threatening contempt; tender in its attempt to understand and identify with the Jew who cannot see the danger he courts.

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• Occupation Trilogy

  • Patrick Modiano

  • 352 strony
  • 13 godzin czytania

  When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. Born just after the war, Modiano was an angry young man in his twenties when these three brilliant, angry novels burst onto the Parisian literary scene and caused a storm.The epigraph to his ambitious first novel, among the first to seriously question both wartime collaboration in France and the myths of the Gaullist era, reads: 'In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man and says: 'Excuse me, monsieur, where is La Place de l'�toile?' The young man points to the star on his chest.' The Night Watch tells the story of a young man, caught between his work for the French Gestapo, his work for a Resistance cell informing on the police and the black market dealers whose seedy milieu he shares. Ring Roads recounts Serge's search for his father, who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds him trying to survive the war years in the unlikely company of spivs, anti-Semites and prostitutes, putting his meagre business skills at the service of those who have no interest in him or his survival. These brilliant, almost hallucinatory evocations of the Occupation, attempt to exorcise the past by exploring the morally ambiguous worlds of collaboration and resistance.

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