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Out of the Dark
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Mood & atmosphere aplenty, I wouldn't necessarily call the main protagonist a drifter. More like a wallflower, the guy goes about perambulating the most interesting capitols of Europe looking for Love.
Modiano is a (probable?) master at paining landscape. If only it contained a story!
Modiano is a (probable?) master at paining landscape. If only it contained a story!
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Aug 04, 2017 05:40AM
I love Modiano. He's a master of post-war noir atmospherics. But it's true that his books are more of meditations than stories. Taken as an ouevre they paint a critical picture of France during the occupation and the underworld thereafter - and many of them deal with a search for identity or forgotten pasts, which I think parallel with France's own identity crisis after being complicit in the German occupation and extermination machine. If you haven't read them yet, "Missing Person" and "Dora Bruder" are exceptional. "So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood" is also quite good.
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