Suspended Sentences - Patrick Modiano

Suspended Sentences
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Autor: Patrick Modiano

 Wydawnictwo: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300198058
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Oprawa: miękka
Stron: 232
Data wydania: 2014-11-01
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In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin-represents a sterling example of the author's originality and appeal, while Mark Polizzotti's superb English-language translations capture not only Modiano's distinctive narrative voice but also the matchless grace and spare beauty of his prose. Although originally published separately, Modiano's three novellas form a single, compelling whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of others, to present a dreamlike autobiography that is also the biography of a place. Orphaned children, mysterious parents, forgotten friends, enigmatic strangers-each appears in this three-part love song to a Paris that no longer exists. Shadowed by the dark period of the Nazi Occupation, these novellas reveal Modiano's fascination with the lost, obscure, or mysterious: a young person's confusion over adult behavior; the repercussions of a chance encounter; the search for a missing father; the aftershock of a fatal affair. To read Modiano's trilogy is to enter his world of uncertainties and the almost accidental way in which people find their fates. "Vividly translated by Mark Polizzotti ... [and] as good a place as any to enter the long, slow-moving river of Modiano's fiction."-Alan Riding, New York Times Book Review -- Alan Riding New York Times Book Review "Haunting... Modiano combines a detective's curiosity with an elegist's melancholy."-Adam Kirsch, New Republic -- Adam Kirsch New Republic "A timely glimpse at [Modiano's] fixations ... In Mark Polizzotti's spare and elegant translation, the writing conveys a sense of dreamy unease in which the real, the hypothesized, and the half-forgotten blend into a shimmering vagueness."-Sam Sacks, Wall Street Journal -- Sam Sacks Wall Street Journal "Mr. Modiano writes clear, languid, and urbane sentences in Mr. Polizzotti's agile translation ... these novellas have a mood. They cast a spell."-Dwight Garner, New York Times -- Dwight Garner New York Times "[A] trilogy of novellas from the recent French Nobel Prize winner... Fictions with a moral bite, depicting a world in which everyone, it seems, is complicit in crimes not yet specified. Moody, elegant and dour."-Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Kirkus Reviews "The three novellas that make up this exquisite collection are mysteries, albeit mysteries of an existential sort."-David L. Ulin, Los Angeles Times -- David L. Ulin Los Angeles Times "An excellent place to begin... Here is the bracing darkness at the heart of Modiano's vision of memory and modern day Paris, ... a traveling back to travel forward, a journey these novellas pace with the elegance of a solitary walker, moving through a city's streets, his collar up against the cold."-John Freeman, Boston Globe -- John Freeman Boston Globe "Compelling... Haunting... Modiano's unconventional accounts of vanished hours show how the urge to solve a long-lost crime, or to reclaim forgotten memories, ultimately leads to inscrutable vanishing points."-Scott Esposito, San Francisco Chronicle -- Scott Esposito San Francisco Chronicle "Brilliant"-New York Magazine "Approval Matrix" New York Magazine "Approval Matrix" "There are few modern writers as pleasurable or interesting to read. Modiano is one of the great writers of our time."-David Herman, Jewish Chronicle -- David Herman Jewish Chronicle "Mesmerizing ... evocative and nostalgic ... These are stories that continue to haunt, even after the final page ... For English-language readers, this collection serves as the discovery of a unique, masterful writer."-Gila Wertheimer, Chicago Jewish Star

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Patrick Modiano