Author: Patrick Modiano
Translator: Un-bi Kim
Publisher: Munhakdongne
190 pages.
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About This Book
In 1988 Patrick Modiano stumbled across an ad between the stock market report
and a story of a school visit to Marchal Ptain in the personal columns of Paris
Soir from December 31, 1941: "We are looking for a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15
years old, five feet tall, round face, gray-brown eyes, gray sportscoat,
burgundy pullover, navy blue hat and skirt, brown athletic shoes. Send all
information to Mr. and Mrs. Bruder, 41, Boulevard Ornano, Paris." Placed by the
parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl who had run away from her convent school
just before New Year's Eve, this ad set Modiano on a quest to find out
everything he could about Dora Bruder and why she ran away from the Catholic
boarding school that had been hiding her. He found only one other official
mention of her name: on a list of Jews deported from Paris to Auschwitz in
September 1942. With no knowledge of Dora Bruder aside from these two records of
disappearances, Modiano continued to dig for fragments from Dora's past. What
little he found in official records or through remaining family members, Modiano
transforms into a meditation on the immense losses of the periodlost people,
lost stories, and lost history. As he tries to find connections to Dora, Modiano
delivers a moving account of the ten-year investigation that took him back to
the sights and sounds of Paris under the Occupation and the paranoia of the
Ptain regime. In his efforts to exhume her from the past, Modiano realizes that
he must come to terms with the specters of his own troubled adolescence. The
result is a montage of creative and historical material that unfolds as a moving
rumination on loss.
About the Author
Patrick Modiano is one of the most celebrated French novelists of his
generation. He has collaborated with Louis Malle on the film Lacombe Lucien and
has written over fifteen novels.
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