French writer and Nobel Prize Laureate, Patrick Moldano.
When you watch a movie it is important to understand, not only that decisions have been made about every thing in every frame: the glare from the wet tarmac, the broken zinnia in the vase of otherwise perfect flowers, or the dreadful yellow hat on the third boy from the right, but that even if something is missed, like the broken flower; if someone has not done his or her job well, or even if simply there was not time or money to re-shoot the scene or re-dress the set &#; so we will just have to live with the little boy putting his fingers in his ears moments before Eva Marie Saint ‘shoots’ Cary Grant in that now famous blooper from Hitchcock’s North by Northwest – we have to acknowledge that what we see is what is meant, and the person ultimately responsible for this is the director, because he or she has allowed his or her name to be put on it. Just like a name on the bottom of a painting: the person is taking responsibility for what you see. It says, I did this; what you see is what I want you to see.
What the viewer thinks it ‘means’ is something completely different and has nothing to do with the creator b
The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder
Patrick Modiano was born in an outlying quarter of Paris in He published his first novel, La Place de l'Étoile, when he was 21, and has made a distinguished career as a novelist ever since, winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in He has won the Grand Prix du Roman de l'Académie Française and the Prix Goncourt. His fiction is haunted by the trauma of the German Occupation of France, and this subject also features in the screenplay of Lacombe Lucien which he wrote for the film director Louis Malle.
Joanna Kilmartin is the translator and editor of Marcel Proust's Selected Letters: Volume Four, – She has been awarded the Scott-Moncrieff translation prize twice: in for Sunlight on Cold Water by Françoise Sagan, and in for Bernadini's Terrace by Suzanne Prou.
The Search Warrant
Dora Bruder, or The Search Warrant
Patrick Modiano was doing what he does a lot, one day in He was looking at the past; specifically, he was skimming a Paris newspaper, looking for clues to his own past. Modiano, the Nobel Prize-winner for Literature, is known for his lifetime obsessions: Paris, Paris during the Occupation, the Jewish-Italian father that he never really knew in Paris during the Occupation. I’ve now read three of his books this summer and they all centrally involve the mystery of his father in some way, especially as his father's life intersected with the Occupation. The books are about memory, and the failure of memory, about the need to know, and the failure to truly know. And moral compromises, that he observed particularly in his father, and other Parisia
Non-fiction &#; paperback; Vintage Editions; pages; Translated from the French by Joanna Kilmartin.
This is my fourth Patrick Modiano book in two months. I love his simple prose style, his themes — memory, history, identity, coincidence — and his Parisian settings. Which is probably why I keep returning to his work.
But The Search Warrant, first published in , is a little different to other Modiano titles I have read: this one is non-fiction. Yet it contains similar themes to his fiction.
The almost repetitive nature of his craft, in which he investigates and interrogates facts, often doing highly manual research, is a technique he also employs in his novels. Even how he traces multiple timelines, layering them upon each other to explore coincidences and a sense of history repeating, is present in this work, too.
Search for a missing schoolgirl
The book is based on a simple premise: what was the fate of Dora Bruder, a teenage schoolgirl listed as missing in the December issue of the (now defunct) French newspaper Paris-soir?
In December , after reading the announcement of the search for Dora [&#;] I had thought about it incessantly for months. The precision
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