Bibliograph

In the café of lost youth, Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Chris Clarke

Type

Label

In the café of lost youth, Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Chris Clarke

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

novels

Main title

In the café of lost youth

Oclc number

911171953

Responsibility statement

Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Chris Clarke

Series statement

New York Review Books Classics

Summary

"Who was Louki? Did anyone really know? She made her mark on all of us in different ways. We all remember her, some of us more than others, but did any of us truly know her? Can anyone honestly say they know another person? In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, which includes vignettes of a number of historical figures and is inspired in part by the circle (depicted in the photographs of Ed van der Elsken) of the notorious and charismatic Guy Debord, centers on the enigmatic, waiflike figure of Louki, who catches everyone's attention even as she eludes possession or comprehension. Through the eyes of four very different narrators, we contemplate Louki's character and her fate, while Modiano explores the themes of identity, memory, time, and forgetting that are at the heart of his hypnotic and deeply moving art."--, Provided by publisher

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Contributor