One of the hallmarks of French author Patrick Modiano’s writing is a singular ability to revisit particular motifs and episodes, infusing each telling with new detail and emotional nuance. In this evocative novel the internationally acclaimed author takes up one of his most compelling themes: a love affair with a woman who disappears, and a narrator grappling with the mystery of a relationship stopped short. Set in mid-sixties Paris, After the Circus traces the relationship between the narrator, a young man not quite of legal age, and the slightly older, enigmatic woman he first glimpses at a police interrogation. The two lovers make their uncertain way into each other’s hearts, but the narrator soon finds himself in the unsettling, ominous presence of others. Who are these people? Are they real, or simply evoked? Part romance, part detective story, this mesmerizing book fully demonstrates Modiano’s signature use of atmosphere and suggestion as he investigates the perils and the exhilaration of young love

In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, inspired in part by the circle (depicted in the photographs of Ed van der Elsken) of the notorious and charismatic Guy Debord, centers on the enigmatic, waiflike figure of Louki, who catches everyone’s attention even as she eludes possession or comprehension. Through the eyes of four very different narrators, including Louki herself, we contemplate her character and her fate, while Modiano explores the themes of identity, memory, time, and forgetting that are at the heart of his spellbinding and deeply moving art

A mesmerizing novel by Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano, now superbly translated for English-language readers. For long standing admirers of Modiano’s luminous writing as well as those readers encountering his work for the first time, Little Jewel will be an exciting discovery. Uniquely told by a young female narrator, Little Jewel is the story of a young woman adrift in Paris, imprisoned in an imperfectly remembered past. The city itself is a major character in Modiano’s work, and timeless moral ambiguities of the post-Occupation years remain hauntingly unresolved. One day in the corridors of the metro, nineteen-year-old Thérèse glimpses a woman in a yellow coat. Could this be the mother who long ago abandoned her? Is she still alive? Desperate for answers to questions that have tormented her since childhood, Thérèse pursues the mysterious figure on a quest through the streets of Paris. In classic Modiano style, this book explores the elusive nature of memory, the unyielding power of the past, and the deep human need for identity and connection

This uneasy, compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of Paris. The unnamed narrator, a teenage boy, is hit by a car whose driver he vaguely recalls having met before. The mysterious ensuing events, involving a police van, a dose of ether, awakening in a strange hospital, and the disappearance of the woman driver, culminate in a packet being pressed into the boy’s hand. It is an envelope stuffed full of bank notes. The confusion only deepens as the characters grow increasingly apprehensive; meanwhile, readers are held spellbound. Modiano’s low-key writing style, his preoccupation with memory and its untrustworthiness, and his deep concern with timeless moral questions have earned him an international audience of devoted readers. This beautifully rendered translation brings another of his finest works to an eagerly waiting English-language audience. Paris Nocturne has been named “a perfect book” by Libération, while L’Express observes, “Paris Nocturne is cloaked in darkness, but it is a novel that is turned toward the light.”

In this rare glimpse into the life of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, the author takes up his pen to tell his personal story. He addresses his early years — shadowy times in postwar Paris that haunt his memory and have inspired his world-cherished body of fiction. In the spare, absorbing, and sometimes dreamlike prose that translator Mark Polizzotti captures unerringly, Modiano offers a memoir of his first twenty-one years. Termed one of his “finest books” by the Guardian, Pedigree is both a personal exploration and a luminous portrait of a world gone by. Pedigree sheds light on the childhood and adolescence that Modiano explores in Suspended Sentences, Dora Bruder, and other novels. In this work he re-creates the louche, unstable, colorful world of his parents under the German Occupation; his childhood in a household of circus performers and gangsters; and his formative friendship with the writer Raymond Queneau. While acknowledging that memory is never assured, Modiano recalls with painful clarity the most haunting moments of his early life, such as the death of his ten-year-old brother. Pedigree, Modiano’s only memoir, is a gift to his readers and a master key to the themes that have inspired his writing life

Ring Roads, for which Modiano was awarded the French Academy's Grand Prix du Roman (1972), is the story of a young Jew, Serge, in search of his father, Chalva, who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds him trying to survive the war years in the unlikely company of black marketeers, anti-Semites and prostitutes, putting his meagre and not entirely orthodox business skills at the service of those who have no interest in him or his survival. Ring Roads is a brilliant, almost hallucinatory evocation of the uneasy, corrupt years of the Occupation and like The Night Watch is both cruel and tender †“ savage in its depiction of the anti-Semitic newspaper editor, the bullying ex-Foreign Legionnaire and the former prostitute, who treat Chalva with ever more threatening contempt; tender in its attempt to understand and identify with the Jew who cannot see the danger he courts

A haunting novel of suspense from the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the stillness of his Paris apartment, Jean Daragane has built a life of total solitude. Then a surprising phone call shatters the silence of an unusually hot September, and the threatening voice on the other end of the line leaves Daragane wary but irresistibly curious. Almost at once, he finds himself entangled with a shady gambler and a beautiful, fragile young woman, who draw Daragane into the mystery of a decades-old murder. The investigation will force him to confront the memory of a trauma he had all but buried. With So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighborhood Patrick Modiano adds a new chapter to a body of work whose supreme psychological insight and subtle, atmospheric writing have earned him worldwide renown — including the Nobel Prize in Literature. This masterly novel, now translated into twenty languages, penetrates the deepest enigmas of identity and compels us to ask whether we ever know who we truly are

Although originally published separately, Patrick 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. In this superb English-language translation of Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin, Mark Polizzotti captures not only Modiano’s distinctive narrative voice but also the matchless grace and spare beauty of his prose. 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

When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for LIterature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. The Night Watch is his second novel and tells the story of a young man of limited means, caught between his work for the French Gestapo informing on the Resistance, and his work for a Resistance cell informing on the police and the black market dealers whose seedy milieu of nightclubs, prostitutes and spivs he shares. Under pressure from both sides to inform and bring things to a crisis, he finds himself driven towards an act of self-sacrifice as the only way to escape an impossible situation and the question that haunts him — how to be a traitor without being a traitor. In this astonishing, cruel and tender book, Modiano attempts to exorcise the past by leading his characters out on a fantasmagoric patrol during one fatal night of the Occupation

When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. Born just after the war, Modiano was an angry young man in his twenties when these three brilliant, angry novels burst onto the Parisian literary scene and caused a storm. The epigraph to his ambitious first novel, among the first to seriously question both wartime collaboration in France and the myths of the Gaullist era, reads: 'In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man and says: 'Excuse me, monsieur, where is La Place de l'Étoile?' The young man points to the star on his chest.' The Night Watch tells the story of a young man, caught between his work for the French Gestapo, his work for a Resistance cell informing on the police and the black market dealers whose seedy milieu he shares. Ring Roads recounts Serge's search for his father, who disappeared from his life ten years earlier. He finds him trying to survive the war years in the unlikely company of spivs, anti-Semites and prostitutes, putting his meagre business skills at the service of those who have no interest in him or his survival. These brilliant, almost hallucinatory evocations of the Occupation, attempt to exorcise the past by exploring the morally ambiguous worlds of collaboration and resistance

Patriks Modiano Tumšo bodīšu iela Romāns «Tumšo bodīšu iela» iepazīstina latviešu lasītājus ar franču mūsdienu autora Patrika Modiano (dz. 1945. g. Buloņā) savdabīgo daiļradi. Jau kopš pirmā romāna «Zvaigznes laukums» 1968. gadā tā izpelnījusies dažādas literāras prēmijas, piesaistot uzmanību ar dīvainām mijkrēšļa noskaņām, kuras atdzīvojas pagātne, sen aizmirsti tēli un notikumi. «Tumšo bodīšu iela» (1978) savam 33 gadus vecajam autoram dāvājusi Gonkuru prēmiju — ar piebildi, ka tā piešķirta ne tikai par šo romānu, bet arī par visiem Modiano darbiem kopumā. Sakuma šķiet, ka «Tumšo bodīšu iela» ir romāns, kas pilnīgi pakļauts iztēlei. Taču vēlāk mēs uztveram to kā autobiogrāfiju, kas ir simtiem reižu reālāka nekā jebkura cita, uz patiesiem faktiem balstīta. Un kura uzvanda arī mūsu pašu atmiņas dzīles. Noskanējis grāmatu un  failu izveidojis Imants Ločmelis imantslochmelis@inbox.lv (g) Ed. Gallimard, 1978. Ineses Pētersones tulkojums, Alda Aleka vāks, tituls, 1992. Karogs & a/s Preses nams Rīga 1992 Patriks Modiano Mo 050 Tumšo bodīšu iela. — R.: Karogs, a/s Preses nams, .'992. — 120

Young Once is a crucial book in the career of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. It was his breakthrough novel, in which he stripped away the difficulties of his earlier work and found a clear, mysteriously moving voice for his haunting stories of love, nostalgia, and grief. It has also been called “the most gripping Modiano book of all” (Der Spiegel). Odile and Louis are leading a happy, bucolic life with their two children in the French countryside near the Swiss mountains. It is Odile’s thirty-fifth birthday, and Louis’s thirty-fifth birthday is a few weeks away. Then the story shifts back to their early years: Louis, just freed from his military service and at loose ends, taken up by a shady character who brings him to Paris to do some work for a friend who manages a garage; Odile, an aspiring singer, at the mercy of the kindness and unkindness of strangers. They move through a Paris saturated with the crimes and secrets of the past but breathing hopes for the future; they find each other and struggle together to create what, looking back, will have been their youth

Каждая новая книга Патрика Модиано становится событием в литературе. Модиано остается одним из лучших прозаиков Франции. Его романы, обманчиво похожие, — это целый мир. В небольших объемах, акварельными выразительными средствами, автору удается погрузить читателя в непростую историю XX века. Память — путеводная нить всех книг Модиано. «Воспоминания, подобные плывущим облакам» то и дело переносят героя «Горизонта» из сегодняшнего Парижа в Париж 60-х, где встретились двое молодых людей, неприкаянные дети войны, начинающий писатель Жан и загадочная девушка Маргарет, которая внезапно исчезнет из жизни героя, так и не открыв своей тайны. «Он рассматривал миниатюрный план Парижа на последних страницах своего черного блокнота. Ему всегда верилось, будто в сердце некоторых кварталов можно поныне отыскать людей, встреченных в юности… Где-то в тайниках, изгибах пространства они существуют такими же, какими были прежде. Чтобы добраться до них, нужно знать потайные ходы, дворы, угадать, где находятся не нанесенные на карту улицы, что на первый взгляд кажутся тупиками…» Патрик Модиано

Автор книги, пытаясь выяснить судьбу пятнадцатилетней еврейской девочки, пропавшей зимой 1941 года, раскрывает одну из самых тягостных страниц в истории Парижа. Он рассказывает о депортации евреев, которая проходила при участии французских властей времен фашисткой оккупации. На русском языке роман публикуется впервые

«Катрин Карамболь» – это полная поэзии и очарования книга известного французского писателя Патрика Модиано, получившего Нобелевскую премию по литературе в 2014 году. Проникнутый лирикой и нежностью рассказ – воспоминание о жизни девочки и её отца в Париже – завораживает читателя. Оригинальные иллюстрации выполнены известным французским художником-карикатуристом Ж.-Ж. Семпе. Для младшего школьного возраста

Новый роман одного из самых читаемых французских писателей приглашает нас заглянуть в парижское кафе утраченной молодости, в маленький неопределенный мирок потерянных символов прошлого — «точек пересечения», «нейтральных зон» и «вечного возвращения»

Признанный мастер поэтической прозы Патрик Модиано строит свое творчество по принципу метафизического детектива, где объект сыска — биографии наших современников, теряющих среди исторических встрясок нить собственной истории. В романе «Маленькое Чудо» восемнадцатилетняя героиня, разгадывающая секрет своего рождения, блуждает по лабиринтам прошлого в зыбком тумане новых парижских тайн

Повесть «Незнакомки» состоит из трех женских монологов. В каждом из них героиня, остающаяся загадочно безымянной, рассказывает об определенном отрезке своей жизни, стремясь поделиться чем-то важным и удивительным, одновременно стараясь спрятать это среди на первый взгляд незначительных событий и наблюдений. Как сказал Патрик Модиано: «Ясно, что каждая из женщин говорит о своем прошлом. Но неизвестно, где они находятся сейчас, в момент рассказа, и что с ними сталось в жизни… непонятно, откуда исходят эти голоса, одновременно и близкие и далекие. И поскольку не возможно увязать ни одну из этих историй с дальнейшей судьбой героини, то кажется, будто каждый рассказ – это отколовшийся кусок льдины, навеки обреченный одиноко носиться по волнам, обретая черты то ли сновидения, то ли фантазии»

Опубликовано в журнале: Иностранная литература 2015, № 9. Номер открывается романом «Ночная трава» французского писателя,  Нобелевского лауреата (2014) Патрика Модиано (1945). В декорациях парижской топографии 60-х годов ХХ века, в атмосфере полусна-полуяви, в окружении темных личностей, выходцев из Марокко, протекает любовь молодого героя и загадочной девушки, живущей под чужим именем и по подложным документам, потому что ее прошлое обременено случайным преступлением… Перевод с французского Тимофея Петухова

Нобелевский лауреат Патрик Модиано остается верен своей музе по имени Память. В новом романе писатель Жан — альтер эго автора — снова ищет в Париже, былом и сегодняшнем, незнакомку из прошлого. Однако в отличие от прежних книг Модиано «Симпатические чернила» построены как классический детектив с неожиданной развязкой. И писатель на сей раз расширяет горизонты: поиск, начавшийся в Париже, приведет героя в Вечный город, где и ждет читателя разгадка этой почти детективной истории. …Эти два противоречивых свойства памяти всегда поражали меня, потому что я, как писатель, чувствую в них тревожное ожидание: с одной стороны, давно канувшее воспоминание вдруг всплывает на поверхность, словно невидимые чернила проступают под воздействием химического вещества; с другой — неприятное воспоминание, казалось бы стершееся со временем, вновь появляется откуда ни возьмись, подобно шантажисту, показывая нам, как сильно мы зависим от иных «молчаний» памяти, которые могут рано или поздно быть нарушены. Патрик Модиано

Повесть опубликована в журнале "Иностранная литература" № 12, 1988 ...Повесть «Смягчение приговора» вышла в Париже в 1988 году («Remise de peine». Paris, Editions du Seuil, t988)

У Патрика Модиано муза особая — Память. В каждой книге писатель извлекает людей и события «из глубины забвения». «Пленником прошлого» называли его критики, и за эти годы «плена» он подарил нам целый ряд шедевров — от «Площади Звезды» до «Доры Брюдер», а в 2014 г. был удостоен Нобелевской премии по литературе. Но в последних романах писатель обращается не к прошлому своей страны, а к своему собственному. И только легче, изящней, воздушней становится его проза