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In "In the Café of Lost Youth", Patrick Modiano paints a shadowy Paris of the 1950s, filled with writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. Around the elusive, waiflike Louki, four distinct narrators weave vignettes that touch on historical figures and the famous circle of Guy Debord, as depicted in the photographs of Ed van der Elsken. Through this fragmented view, Modiano delves into the intimate processes of identity, memory, time, and forgetting that underpin his distinctively psychological and literary style.
First publish date: 2016
Genre: Literary Fiction/Contemporary Literary Fiction
Authors: Patrick Modiano
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