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Pedigree : A Memoir / Patrick Modiano, Mark Polizzotti.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Modiano, Patrick, 1945- Author.
- Polizzotti, Mark, Author.
- Series:
- Margellos world republic of letters book.
- The Margellos World Republic of Letters
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Modiano, Patrick, 1945-.
- Modiano, Patrick.
- Authors, French--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, French.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (140 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano has said that his many fictions are all variations of the same story. Pedigree, his memoir, is the theme. In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early years-shadowy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dreamlike prose that translator Mark Polizzotti captures unerringly, Modiano offers a memoir of his first twenty-one years. Termed one of his "finest books" by the Guardian, Pedigree is both a personal exploration and a luminous portrait of a world gone by. Pedigree sheds light on the childhood and adolescence that Modiano explores in Suspended Sentences,Dora Bruder, and other novels. In this work he re-creates the louche, unstable, colorful world of his parents under the German Occupation; his childhood in a household of circus performers and gangsters; and his formative friendship with the writer Raymond Queneau. While acknowledging that memory is never assured, Modiano recalls with painful clarity the most haunting moments of his early life, such as the death of his ten-year-old brother. Pedigree, Modiano's only memoir, is a gift to his readers and a master key to the themes that have inspired his writing life.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Pedigree. A Memoir
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Feb 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780300216721
- 0300216726
- OCLC:
- 915343905
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