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Sleep of Memory (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

Sleep of Memory (The Margellos World Republic of Letters)

by Mark Polizzotti (Author), PatrickModiano (Author), Patrick Modiano (Author), Mark Polizzotti (Author)

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    Hardcover 2018

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Synopsis

The newest best-seller by Patrick Modiano is a beautiful tapestry that brings together memory, esoteric encounters, and fragmented sensations

Patrick Modiano's first book since his 2014 Nobel Prize revisits moments of the author's past to produce a spare yet moving reflection on the destructive underside of love, the dreams and follies of youth, the vagaries of memory, and the melancholy of loss.

Writing from the perspective of an older man, the narrator relives a key period in his life through his relationships with several enigmatic women--Genevi ve, Martine, Madeleine, a certain Madame Huberson--in the process unearthing his troubled relationship with his parents, his unorthodox childhood, and the unsettled years of his youth that helped form the celebrated writer he would become. This is classic Modiano, utilizing his signature mix of autobiography and invention to create his most intriguing and intimate book yet.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 128
 Edition: Translation
 Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 02 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 0300238304
ISBN 13: 9780300238303

Media Reviews
An elegant work of suggestion and misdirection --Kirkus Reviews
A dream-like detective tale set in Paris . . . [A] darkly evocative novel of one man's troubling past. --Michael Autrey, Booklist
Brief but vast and echoing, impossible to summarize, Sleep of Memory is Modiano at his most sublime. --Luc Sante, author of The Other Paris
It's thrilling to read Modiano's narratives of a cosmic mystery so substantive, yet so personal, that it need not be named. Though names do appear everywhere, lit up like stars above a dark landscape, mapping locations, naming the players (often with fluid identities) in a shape shifting, yet eternal drama. In Modiano, mysteries don't exist to be solved; instead, they are compounded. I love the metaphorical connotations here of people one might assume have vanished, though 'they only changed neighborhoods.' --Ann Beattie
A lapidary master, Modiano compellingly evokes a particular city (Paris) in a historical moment, through the recollections of his idiosyncratic protagonist. Simultaneously illusory and utterly precise, Sleep of Memory reverberates powerfully in the reader's imagination. --Claire Messud, author, most recently, of The Burning Girl
Author Bio
Internationally renowned author Patrick Modiano has received many prestigious literary awards, among them the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mark Polizzotti is the translator of more than fifty books from the French, including eight by Modiano.