7 Thrillers by Patrick Modiano
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Overview: Patrick Modiano (b. 1945) is one of France’s most admired contemporary novelists and winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation."
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller > Cultural > France > Historical
La Place de l’Étoile (The Occupation Trilogy #1)
The first novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, which with The Night Watch and Ring Roads forms a trilogy of the Occupation.
This astonishing first novel by one of France’s greatest living writers was among the earliest to seriously question both wartime collaboration in France and the myths of the Gaullist era. The epigraph 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 narrator of this wild and whirling satire is a hero on the edge, who imagines himself in Paris under the German Occupation. Through his mind stream a thousand different possible existences, where sometimes the Jew is king, sometimes a martyr, and where tragedy disguises itself as farce. Real and fictional characters from Maurice Sachs and Drieu La Rochelle, Marcel Proust and the French Gestapo, Captain Dreyfus and the Petainist admirals, to Freud, Hitler and Eva Braun spin past our eyes. But at the centre of this whirligig is La Place de l’Étoile, the geographical and moral centre of Paris, the capital of grief.
With La Place de l’Étoile Patrick Modiano burst onto the Parisian literary scene in 1968, winning two literary prizes, and preparing the way for the next two books – The Night Watch and Ring Roads – in what is regarded as his trilogy of the Occupation.
Night Rounds & The Night Watch (The Occupation Trilogy #2)
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 black market dealers. 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. Earlier this year, the novel was re-issued in a revised translation as THE NIGHT WATCH, also included here.
Ring Roads (The Occupation Trilogy #3)
Was Awarded the French Academy’s Grand Prix du Roman, is the story of a young Jew in search of his father who disappeared 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.
Honeymoon
Parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up in a Paris hotel, with that of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he’d met twenty years before, and whose mystery continues to haunt him.
Out Of The Dark
The narrator recalls his shadowy love affair in the 1960s with an enigmatic woman. Fifteen years after their breakup, they meet again, but she has changed her name and denies their past. What is real and what is not remain to be seen in the dreamlike novel that typifies Modiano’s obsessions and elegiac prose.
Suspended Sentences
Is a trilogy of novellas — "Suspended Sentences" (1988), "Flowers of Ruin" (1991), and "Afterimage" (1993) — that form a single, compelling whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Orphaned children, mysterious parents, forgotten friends, enigmatic strangers — each appears in this three-part love song to a Paris that no longer exists.
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