Jean Patrick Modiano (born 30 July 1945), generally known as Patrick Modiano, is a French novelist and recipient of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. He is a noted writer of autofiction, the blend of autobiography and historical fiction.
In Honeymoon by Patrick Modiano, Jean B., the narrator is submerged in a world where day and night, past and present, have no demarcations. Having spent his adult life making documentary films about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career. He begins to take what seems to be a journey to nowhere. Jean pretends to fly to Rio to make another film but instead returns to his Parisian suburb. He decides to spend his solitary days...
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In Modiano’s Missing Person , Guy Roland is an amnesiac detective who has lost his memory ten years before the beginning of the story, which opens in 1965. His employer retires and closes the detective agency. Roland embarks on a search for his own identity. I guess he didn’t get vacation days. His investigations uncover clues to a life that seems to stop during the Second World War. It seems that he is Jimmy Pedro Stern, a Greek Jew from...
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