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  • Paperback: 160 pages
  • Publisher: Gallimard Blanche (March 18, 1997)
  • Language: French
  • ISBN-10: 2070748987
  • ISBN-13: 978-2070748983
  • Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
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5.0 out of 5 starsThe Known and the Unknown
By Roger Brunyate TOP 500 REVIEWERVINE VOICE on November 17, 2014
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I really wanted to quote the final paragraph of Modiano's novel, which is infinitely more moving in its simplicity than anything that comes before. But I will desist, and leave it for the reader to discover -- not because it gives away secrets, but because it does the opposite, preserving a secret for all time. It is the one gift he can offer to the tragic subject of his writing, a teenage Jewish girl living in Paris at the time of the German Occupation.

So failing that, let me come upon it obliquely, as Modiano himself does. Near the beginning of his book, the author recalls visiting the hospital of the Salpêtrière in search of his ailing father, whom he had not seen for many years:

"I remember having wandered for hours through the immensity of this vast hospital, looking for him. I went into ancient buildings, passed through wards lined with beds, and questioned nurses who gave me contradictory information. I ended almost doubting my father's very existence as I walked back and forth in front of that majestic church and those unreal buildings, unchanged since the 18th century. They made me think of Manon Lescaut and the time when they served as a prison for prostitutes, under the sinister name of General Hospital, before they were deported to Louisiana. I must have pounded those paved courtyards until dusk. I never saw my father again." [translation mine]

This is paragraph has nothing to do with Modiano's main subject, which is to trace the last months of this girl before her eventual capture. And yet it has everything to do with his motivation and method.Read more ›
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5.0 out of 5 stars"Vous aimeriez bien comprendre pourquoi."
By Thomas F. Dillingham VINE VOICE on December 8, 2014
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I had not heard of, nor read the work of, Patrick Modiano before the announcement of his Nobel Prize for Literature. Curiosity ensued. My first encounter has been with this curious book (both an odd work and one that explores deeply the nature of human curiosity), a cross between novella and brief, focused memoir. The voice of the narrator lets us know early that a determined search for information about the fate of a young woman, Dora Bruder, identified as being "missing" from her school in Paris, according to a notice posted by her parents in Paris-Soir on December 31, 1941 is to follow. Indeed, the narrative persists in a search through printed records, possible eyewitness sources and whatever else may reveal or bring to light the situation and circumstances of Dora's life after her flight from her school. Early in the work, the narrator states: "Il faut longtemps pour que resurgisse a la lumiere ce qui a ete efface. Des traces subsistent dans des registres et l'on ignore ou ils sont caches et quels gardiens veillent sur eux te si ces gardiens consentiront a vous les montrer. Ou peut-etre ont-ils oublie tout simplement que ces registres existaientt" And he concludes the thought with what might be the governing idea or at least a guiding motto for this narrative, "Il suffit d'un peu de patience." (Please excuse the absence of the proper diacritical marks.)

The narrator mixes details of his own life, both his youth and his recent history, with the details he uncovers and discovers from the various sources about the life (and death) of Dora and, for that matter, of both of her parents and vast numbers of others rounded up and deported to death camps by the occupying Germans.Read more ›
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4.0 out of 5 starsExcellent addition to the history of Jewish persecution in France
By Catherine L. Hunt on April 10, 2014
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I read this for my French book club. I wouldn't have sought it out but found it very interesting. It helped me connect some dots in my understanding of the isolation and persecution of Jews in WW I in France. It reads as a mystery, the author's personal search for one girl, and leads to links to the life of his own father in the same era.
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5.0 out of 5 stars"From yesterday to today "
By Friederike Knabe VINE VOICE on November 19, 2014
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Under the heading "From Yesterday to Today" in a Paris newspaper a brief notice concerning a missing fifteen year old Jewish girl attracts the narrator's attention. Why is he interested in the case of the missing girl? The notice is from December 1941 at the time of the German Occupation of Paris and parts of France. The girl's name is Dora Bruder. Written in the first person, the author is drawing us into the story, almost despite ourselves. Something has triggered the narrator's memory. He is familiar with the address given in the ad; he knows the environment. Through a journey into the past, a search that, on and off, lasts decades the protagonist creates an almost physical portrait of Dora like a complicated jigsaw puzzle, one piece or clue at a time. Where facts are missing he carefully imagines them, and, sometimes, by coincidence, finds them later to add to the portrait. "One tells oneself that at least the places retain a light imprint of the people who lived in them."

Who is the Dora Bruder of the novel's title? Why should we know about her, and what, if anything at all? Did she exist in reality or is she a composite creation formed in the mind of the author? Who is the protagonist? It could be Patrick Modiano himself, writing from his own knowledge and experience and reviving his own memories in a kind of fictionalized autobiography, or 'autofiction'. Where is the fine line between reality and fiction here? Does it matter if the story's inner logic is preserved? Born in 1945, a couple of month after the end of the war, much of what the narrator knows comes from his father's generation. Yet, the imprints of the past are there to be explored.Read more ›
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