Descrição
Prémio Nobel 2014
Patrick Modiano
Nascimento: 30 Julho 1945, Paris, França
Motivação para o prémio:”for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”
Patrick Modiano was born on July 30, 1945, in Boulogne-Billancourt, a suburb of Paris. His father was a businessman and his mother an actress. After leaving school, he studied at Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. He took private lessons in geometry from Raymond Queneau, a writer who was to play a decisive role for his development. Already in 1968, Modiano made his debut as a writer with La place de l’étoile, a novel that attracted much attention.
Modiano’s works centre on topics such as memory, oblivion, identity and guilt. The city of Paris is often present in the text and can almost be considered a creative participant in the works. Rather often his tales are built on an autobiographical foundation, or on events that took place during the German occupation. He sometimes draws material for his works from interviews, newspaper articles or his own notes accumulated over the years. His novels show an affinity with one another, and it happens that earlier episodes are extended or that persons recur in different tales. The author’s hometown and its history often serve to link the tales together. A work of documentary character, with World War II as background, is Dora Bruder(1997; Dora Bruder, 1999) which builds on the true tale of a fifteen-year old girl in Paris who became one of the victims of the Holocaust. Among the works which most clearly reveal an autobiographical character one notes Un pedigree from 2005.
Some of Modiano’s works have been translated into English, among them Les boulevards de ceinture (1972; Ring Roads : A Novel, 1974), Villa Triste (1975; Villa Triste, 1977), Quartier perdu (1984; A Trace of Malice, 1988) and Voyage de noces (1990; Honeymoon, 1992). His latest work is the novel Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier (2014). Modiano has also written children’s books and film scripts. Together with the film director Louis Malle he made the feature movie Lacombe Lucien (1974), set during the German occupation of France.
Bibliography – a selection
Works in French
La place de l’étoile. – Paris : Gallimard, 1968
La ronde de nuit. – Paris : Gallimard, 1969
Les boulevards de ceinture. – Paris : Gallimard, 1972
Lacombe Lucien : scénario / pour le film de Louis Malle. – Paris : Gallimard, 1974
Villa Triste. – Paris : Gallimard, 1975
Emmanuel Berl : Interrogatoire / par Patrick Modiano ; suivi de Il fait beau, allons au cimitière / Emmanuel Berl.
– Paris : Gallimard, 1976
Livret de famille. – Paris : Gallimard, 1977
Rue des boutiques obscures. – Paris : Gallimard, 1978
Une jeunesse. – Paris : Gallimard, 1981
Memory Lane / ill. de Pierre Le-Tan. – Paris : Hachette, 1981
De si braves garçons. – Paris : Gallimard, 1982
Poupée blonde de Pierre Michel Wals / ill. de Pierre Le-Tan. – Paris : POL, 1983
Quartier perdu. – Paris : Gallimard, 1984
Une aventure de Choura / ill. de Dominique Zehrfuss. – Paris : Gallimard Jeunesse, 1986
Dimanches d’août. – Paris : Gallimard, 1986
Une fiancée pour Choura /ill. de Dominique Zehrfuss. – Paris : Gallimard Jeunesse, 1987
Remise de peine. – Paris : Le Seuil, 1988
Catherine Certitude / ill. de Jean-Jacques Sempe. – Paris : Gallimard, 1988
Vestiaire de l’enfance. – Paris : Gallimard, 1989
Voyage de noces. – Paris : Gallimard, 1990
Paris tendresse / photogr.: Brassaï ; texte: Modiano. – Hoëbeke, 1990
Fleurs de ruine. – Paris : Le Seuil, 1991
Un cirque passe. – Paris : Gallimard, 1992
Chien de printemps. – Paris : Seuil, 1993
Du plus loin de l’oubli. – Paris : Gallimard, 1995
Elle s’appelait Françoise / Catherine Deneuve, Patrick Modiano. – Paris : Canal plus, 1996
Dora Bruder. – Paris : Gallimard, 1997
Aux jours anciens. – Paris : Elle, 1998
Des inconnues. – Paris : Gallimard, 1999
La Petite Bijou. – Paris : Gallimard, 2001
Éphéméride / ill. de Robert Doisneau, Louis Stettner ; supplément au Le Monde. – Paris : Gallimard, 2001. [Deuxième version enrichit le premier: – Paris : Mercure de France, 2002]
Accident nocturne. – Paris : Gallimard, 2003
Dieu prend-il soin des boeufs? / ill. de Gérard Garouste. – La Combe-Les Eparres : Éd. de l’Acacia, 2003
Un pedigree. – Paris : Gallimard, 2005
28 Paradis / Dominique Zehrfuss, Patrick Modiano. – Paris : Éd. de l’Olivier, 2005
Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue. – Paris : Gallimard, 2007
L’horizon. – Paris : Gallimard, 2010
L’herbe des nuits. – Paris : Gallimard, 2012
28 Paradis, 28 Enfers / Dominique Zehrfuss, Patrick Modiano, Marie Modiano. – Paris : Gallimard, 2012
Romans. (Réunit dix romans de Patrick Modiano.) – Paris : Gallimard, 2013
Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier. – Paris : Gallimard, 2014
Critical studies
Nettelbeck, Colin W. et Hueston, Penelope A., Patrick Modiano, pièces d’identité : écrire l’entretemps. – Paris : Lettres Modernes, 1986
Avni, Ora, D’un passé l’autre : aux portes de l’histoire avec Patrick Modiano. – Paris : l’Harmattan, 1997
Thierry, Laurent, L’œuvre de Patrick Modiano : une autofiction / avec un texte inédit de Patrick Modiano. – Lyon : Presses universitaires de Lyon, 1997
VanderWolk, William, Rewriting the past : memory, history and narration in the novels of Patrick Modiano.
– Amsterdam : Rodopi, 1997
Paradigms of memory : The occupation and other hi/stories in the novels of Patrick Modiano / edited by Martine Guyot-Bender and William VanderWolk. – New York : Peter Lang, 1998
Guyot-Bender, Martine, Poétique et politique de l’ambiguïté chez Patrick Modiano : de “Villa triste” à “Chien de printemps”. – Paris : Lettres modernes Minard, 1999
Roux, Baptiste, Figures de l’Occupation dans l’œuvre de Patrick Modiano. – Paris : l’Harmattan, 1999
Gellings, Paul, Poésie et mythe dans l’oeuvre de Patrick Modiano : le fardeau du nomade. – Paris ; Caen : Lettres modernes Minard, 2000
Kawakami, Akane, A Self-conscious art : Patrick Modiano’s postmodern fictions. – Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2000
Morris, Alan, Patrick Modiano. – Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2000
Demeyère, Annie, Portraits de l’artiste dans l’œuvre de Patrick Modiano. – Paris : l’Harmattan, 2002
Patrick Modiano ou Le temps fragile : une exposition et un texte / présentés par Jean-François Dupont. – Ambérieu-en-Bugey : Château des Allymes, 2002
Cooke, Dervila, Present pasts : Patrick Modiano’s (auto)biographical fictions. – Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2005
Patrick Modiano / edited by John E. Flower. – Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2007
Butaud, Nadia, Patrick Modiano. – Paris : Textuel, 2008
Schulte Nordholt, Annelise, Perec, Modiano, Raczymow : la génération d’après et la mémoire de la Shoah.
– Amsterdam : Rodopi, 2008
Blanckeman, Bruno, Lire Patrick Modiano. – Paris : A. Colin, 2009
Cosnard, Denis, Dans la peau de Patrick Modiano. – Paris : Fayard, 2010
Modiano : ou les Intermittences de la mémoire / sous la direction d’Anne-Yvonne Julien. – Paris : Hermann, 2010
Müller, Hélène, Filiation et mémoire chez Patrick Modiano et Monika Maron. – Paris : H. Müller, 2010
Patrick Modiano / dirigé par Maryline Heck, Raphaëlle Guidée. – Paris : L’Herne, 2012
Beltaïef, Emna, “Remise de peine” de Patrick Modiano : voyage au pays de l ‘enfance. – Louvain-la-Neuve : l’Harmattan, 2013
Tjäder, Per Arne, Gare d’Austerlitz : En bok om Patrick Modiano. – Göteborg : Daidalos, 2014
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