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Dora Bruder And The Longue Durée , Susan Weiner Jun 2007

Dora Bruder And The Longue Durée , Susan Weiner

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Modiano's methods in Dora Bruder recall the Annales historiographer's rejection of the history of events in favor of the "long duration," but with human history as its object. Modiano's long duration draws out repetitions and variations between his own life and Dora's as he reconstructs and imagines it, between Dora and fictional characters, between Dora's story and the lives of Holocaust victims and survivors known and unknown. Moreover, the author encourages the reader to take part in the uncanny connections the novel makes, through movements of the imagination not unlike Modiano's own. In so doing, we approach Dora and those …


Modiano Historien , Richard J. Golsan Jun 2007

Modiano Historien , Richard J. Golsan

Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

Beginning with the "Trilogy" (La place de l'étoile, Ronde de nuit, and Les boulevards de ceinture) of his first three novels published in the late 1960s and early 1970s, the work of Patrick Modiano has been indissociably linked with the history and memory of the Occupation. Dora Bruder is of course no exception along these lines. What makes Modiano's Occupation novels distinctive is their combination of the "historian's" knowledge of the historical realities of the period and the novelist's or "poet's" talent for powerfully evoking the feel and ambiance of "les années noires." While Modiano's practice as …


Memoirs Of Louis Xiv To His Son, 1663/1667, Charles E. Reesink Mr Jan 2007

Memoirs Of Louis Xiv To His Son, 1663/1667, Charles E. Reesink Mr

Charles E Reesink

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