La Place de l’étoile

Patrick Modiano

1968

La Place de l’étoile

Rue Sainte-Catherine, people turned as we passed. Probably because of my father’s purple suit, his Kentucky green shirt and the same old shoes with the astrakhan spats. I fondly wished a policeman would stop us. I would have justified myself once and for all to the French, tirelessly explaining that for twenty years we had been…

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Patrick Modiano

b. 1945
Patrick Modiano is a French author and screenwriter, whose works were influenced by the early death of his brother and by the German occupation. Fascinated by the psychology that led to resistance in some and collaboration in others, Modiano has written more than twenty novels, many of which have been translated and adapted for film. He received the Grand Prix du roman de l’Académie français, the Prix Goncourt, and, in 2014, the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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