These three books by Patrick Modiano are short, intense, and sensuous.
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Book Review: The Sad Tenderness of Patrick Modiano’s “Dora Bruder”
Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano understands that time periods can mesh, interpenetrate, layer up, blend, and blur naturally in the mind.
Book Review: Into the Labyrinth of Fragmentary Memories — The Novels of Patrick Modiano
The prose of Patrick Modiano, this year’s Nobel prizewinner, has a distinctive French style whose directness and grammatical limpidity by no means exclude semantic depth and complexity.
Fuse Book Commentary: Patrick Modiano — An Oddly Elliptical Choice for the Nobel Prize for Literature
Patrick Modiano’s simple sentences pull one in; the nostalgia of loss and pain of youth and the hunt for a vague, romantic Other are easy to relate to.