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3.0 out of 5 stars
An important writer, a disappointing book,
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This review is from: Missing Person (Verba Mundi) (Paperback)
That Patrick Modiano is an important writer I have no doubt. He was the first important French novelist to investigate the memory of Vichy and the recovery of life in a post War France. Here he uses a stock device of a person with amnesia intent on discovering who they were in fact. This short novel holds out some tempting tidbits (the presence of the Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, for one) but very little was made of them. The narrative is loaded with geographical references which suggested something of significance I suspect, but nothing in the text supported them very well. I do not think the problems are on the translator's shoulders, but some notation might have helped. Oh, well. You win some, you lose some. Tant pis.
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Missing Person (Verba Mundi) by Patrick Modiano (Paperback - November 30, 2004)
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