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| Original Title: | Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue |
| ISBN: | 2070786064 (ISBN13: 9782070786060) |
| Edition Language: | French |
| Characters: | Jules-Ferry lycée, Jacqueline Delanque "Louki", Jeanette Gaul, Jean-Pierre Choureau |
| Setting: | Paris(France) |
| Literary Awards: | BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2017), French-American Foundation Translation Prize Nominee for Euan Cameron (2017), Βραβείο Λογοτεχνικής Μετάφρασης ΕΚΕΜΕΛ for Γαλλόφωνη Λογοτεχνία (2009) |
Patrick Modiano
Paperback | Pages: 149 pages Rating: 3.51 | 7111 Users | 850 Reviews
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| Title | : | Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue |
| Author | : | Patrick Modiano |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 149 pages |
| Published | : | October 4th 2007 by Gallimard (first published 2007) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Cultural. France. European Literature. French Literature. Literature. Nobel Prize |
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« Encore aujourd'hui, il m'arrive d'entendre, le soir, une voix qui m'appelle par mon prénom, dans la rue. Une voix rauque. Elle traîne un peu sur les syllabes et je la reconnais tout de suite : la voix de Louki. Je me retourne, mais il n'y a personne. Pas seulement le soir, mais au creux de ces après-midi d'été où vous ne savez plus très bien en quelle année vous êtes. Tout va recommencer comme avant. Les mêmes jours, les mêmes nuits, les mêmes lieux, les mêmes rencontres. L'Éternel Retour. »Quatre narrateurs (un étudiant de l’école des mines, un détective privé, l’héroïne et un de ses amants) construisent le portrait de Jacqueline Delanque ou Louki. Jeune femme ayant rapidement quitté son mari et qui flâne dans le Paris des années 50/60 en déversant ses souvenirs : une enfance difficile, un mariage raté et quelques amitiés avec des clients d’un café du quartier de l’Odéon : Le Condé.
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Ratings: 3.51 From 7111 Users | 850 ReviewsEvaluation Appertaining To Books Dans le café de la jeunesse perdue
My first Modiano, and although I liked this well enough, doubt I'll be feverishly anxious to read more anytime soon. Not having been to Paris, I found the constant detailing of streets (to no discernible purpose) more than a little tedious - it seemed at times to be nothing more than a written walking map of the city. But the nostalgic feel for lost youth, the noir-ish elements, and the fitting the pieces of the four sections together to get a still incomplete picture of Louki, I liked quite aYes, it's brilliant and true, but it's full of sadness, too. Ennui on every page. Louki is the poor daughter of a single mother and she has lost out on the only real opportunity in her life. She drifts through her life in 1950's Paris, meeting people, but never really knowing them, while they never really know her. It's a story steeped in Paris alienation and loss. Such a good story. Such a sad story.
At the halfway point of the journey making up real life, we were surrounded by a gloomy melancholy, one expressed by so very many derisive and sorrowful words in the cafe of lost youth. With this epigraph by Guy Debord I feel ready to dig into my first mystery novel by Patrick Modiano and discover what is so special about his stories to merit a Nobel Prize in literature...The central mystery of this slim yet multi-layered novel is the eternal "cherchez la femme" the quest to unlock the mystery
Dans Le Café De la Jeunesse Perdue = In the Café of Lost Youth, Patrick ModianoIn 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, inspired in part by the circle of the notorious and charismatic Guy Debord, centers on the enigmatic, waiflike figure of Louki, who catches everyones attention even as she eludes possession or comprehension. Through
This was the first book I've read by Patrick Modiano, the well-known contemporary French novelist, and I have to say it was disappointing. I was initially attracted to it by the title, a reference drawn from 60's radical and Situationist theorist Guy Debord's "anti-memoirs." Loosely, the story revolves around a mysterious young Bohemian woman, Louki, described from several points of view: a young student who frequents the same café; a private-eye hired by her much-older husband to find her;
There is a sense of sadness as I begin to write my review of this book. Sadness because the book is about someone or something lost; the titular youth or the selves each of the four narrators has left behind. But also sadness because nothing is crystal clear, there is no certainty or redemption anywhere. If you have read anything by Modiano, youll know that he is not a conventional writer and doesnt stick to a single genre. Instead, his books comprise elements from many different genres:
I need to live in Paris for a year (or longer!) just so I can walk around and find all the streets/parks/alleys/ that Modiano talks about in his novels. Moody, atmospheric, beautiful, and excellent as always.
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