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Patrick Modiano

Geburtstag: 30. Juli 1945
Andere Namen:پاتریک مودیانو, Πατρίκ Μοντιανό

Patrick Modiano ist ein französischer Schriftsteller und Autor von rund dreißig Romanen, für die er mit einer ganzen Reihe von Preisen geehrt wurde, darunter der Grand Prix du Roman der Académie française und der Prix Goncourt. Am 9. Oktober 2014 wurde ihm der Nobelpreis für Literatur zuerkannt: „Für die Kunst des Erinnerns, mit der er die unbegreiflichsten menschlichen Schicksale wachgerufen und die Lebenswelt während der Besatzung sichtbar gemacht hat.“

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„Nebel war aufgekommen, ein feiner, eisiger Nebel, der einem die Lungen mit Frische füllte, daß man glaubte, in der Luft zu schweben.“

— Patrick Modiano

„Ich finde es etwas weniger traurig, wenn alles bleibt, wie es immer war.“

— Patrick Modiano
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„Circumstance and settings are of no importance. One day this sense of emptiness and remorse submerges you. Then , like a tide, it ebbs and disappears. But in the end it returns in force, and she couldn’t shake it off. Nor could I?“

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— Patrick Modiano
Context: Circumstance and settings are of no importance. One day this sense of emptiness and remorse submerges you. Then, like a tide, it ebbs and disappears. But in the end it returns in force, and she couldn’t shake it off. Nor could I? p. 120

„That is her secret. A poor and precious secret which not even the executioners the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, history, time – everything that corrupts and destroys you- have been able to take away from her.“

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— Patrick Modiano
Context: I shall never know how she spent her days, where she hid, in whose company she passed the winter months of her first escape, or the few weeks of spring when she escaped for the second time. That is her secret. A poor and precious secret which not even the executioners the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, history, time – everything that corrupts and destroys you- have been able to take away from her. P 137

„Then again, the term “Jew” meant nothing to the fourteen-year-old Dora. When it came down to it, what did people understand by the term “Jew”? For himself, he never gave it a thought. He was used to being put into this or that category by the authorities. Unskilled labourer. Ex –Austrian. French legionnaire. Non- suspect. Ex-serviceman 100% disabled. Foreign statute labourer. Jew.“

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— Patrick Modiano
Context: Then again, the term “Jew” meant nothing to the fourteen-year-old Dora. When it came down to it, what did people understand by the term “Jew”? For himself, he never gave it a thought. He was used to being put into this or that category by the authorities. Unskilled labourer. Ex –Austrian. French legionnaire. Non- suspect. Ex-serviceman 100% disabled. Foreign statute labourer. Jew. p. 43