The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Étoile - The Night Watch - Ring Roads, by Patrick Modiano
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Born at the close of World War II, 2014 Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano was a young man in his twenties when he burst onto the Parisian literary scene with these three brilliant, angry novels about the wartime Occupation of Paris.
The epigraph to his first novel, among the first to seriously question Nazi collaboration in France, reads: "In June 1942 a German officer goes up to a young man and says: 'Excuse me, monsieur, where is La Place de l’Étoile?' The young man points to the star on his chest." The second novel, The Night Watch, tells the story of a young man caught between his work for the French Gestapo, his work for a Resistance cell, and the black marketeers whose milieu he shares. Ring Roads recounts a son’s search for his Jewish father who disappeared ten years earlier, whom he finds trying to weather the war in service to unsavory characters.
Together these three brilliant, almost hallucinatory evocations of the Occupation attempt to exorcise the past by exploring the morally ambiguous worlds of collaboration and resistance. Award-winning translator Frank Wynne has revised the translations of The Night Watch and Ring Roads--long out of print--for our current day, and brings La Place de l’Étoile into English for the first time. The Occupation Trilogy provides the perfect introduction to one of the world’s greatest writers.
The Occupation Trilogy: La Place de l'Étoile - The Night Watch - Ring Roads, by Patrick Modiano- Amazon Sales Rank: #55306 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-22
- Released on: 2015-09-22
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.24" h x .91" w x 5.56" l, 1.00 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 352 pages
Review
“La Place de l'Etoile . . . is arguably his most explosive.” ―Alan Riding, The New York Times Book Review
"In 1968, Mr. Modiano published his first novel, 'La Place de l’Étoile' ('The Place of the Star'), which appeared in English in September in Bloomsbury’s The Occupation Trilogy. The book’s narrator is a Jewish swindler and pimp. Its vivacious, baroque style . . . contrasts with its sombre title, which refers both to the Paris square and the spot on their chests where Jews were forced to pin yellow stars. The book immediately put Mr. Modiano on the literary map . . . After 'La Place de l’Étoile,' Mr. Modiano’s books develop a different tone, one more mellow and melancholic, somewhere between sepia and film noir . . . Modiano’s books are like mystery novels, in which the search for information only creates more mysteries." ―Rachel Donadio, The New York Times
“World War II, the Occupation, and the Holocaust cast their massive shadows forward in time, obscuring the events of the narrator's life . . . Like W.G. Sebald, another European writer haunted by memory and by the history that took place just before he was born, Modiano combines a detective's curiosity with an elegist's melancholy.” ―Adam Kirsch, New Republic, on Suspended Sentences
“[Modiano] pays complicated, elegiac and almost ghostly tribute to his native city . . . He is obsessed with what we take away from our pasts and what we leave behind. And perhaps most important, with what we only think we've left behind . . . [He] frequently seems a flâneur of consciousness, strolling purposefully through Paris's cache of memories as well as his own.” ―Dwight Garner, The New York Times, on Suspended Sentences
“Mr Modiano's work obsessively revisits the German occupation of France in the second world war, throwing light on some of the conflict's murkier recesses . . . His first novel, La Place de l'Etoile . . . denounced the home-grown brand of anti-semitism that had made it easy for France's Vichy regime to slide into collaboration. The book took aim at the Gaullist myth that dominated the post-war years, according to which France was a nation of resisters. A year later, La Ronde de Nuit explored the nature of the French Gestapo and its role in the spoliation of Jewish property . . . Mr Modiano's novels are pervaded by a sexual and moral ambivalence and by social and political ambiguity . . . And Paris features as a character in her own right, refusing to surrender the secrets of her past.” ―The Economist on Suspended Sentences
About the Author
Patrick Modiano was born in the suburbs of Paris in 1945. He dedicated himself early to writing, encouraged by the writer Raymond Queneau, and won immediate acclaim with his first novel, La Place de l'Étoile, published when he was just twenty-two. His nearly thirty books have been translated into more than forty languages. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014. He lives in Paris.
Frank Wynne is the prize-winning translator of Michel Houellebecq, Boualem Sansal, and many others.
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26 of 27 people found the following review helpful. Modiano's tour-de-force debut By Merrily Baird "The Occupation Trilogy" presents English-language translations of the first three novels published by the Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano. "La Place de l'etoile" debuted in 1968, when the author was but 22 years old, while "La ronde de nuit" (Night Watch) and "Les boulevards de ceinture" (Ring Roads), appeared in 1969 and 1972, respectively.Throughout his career, Modiano has been obsessed with exploring three linked issues: the German occupation of France (1940-1944), his Jewish father's collaboration with the Nazis, and the nature of memory and identity. It is particularly significant, therefore, that the publication of his earliest novels occurred just as the French were reinterpreting their wartime behavior. At this point, the scholar Henry Rousso has noted in a study of the post-occupation period, the French began to admit that their resistance to the Germans had been less universal than previously claimed and determined that judgments of collaborators would require greater nuance. Simultaneously reflecting and strengthening this reassessment were works of literature, Modiano's books now gathered together in "The Occupation Trilogy" prominent among them.Rather than easing postwar anxieties, this cultural change deepened them, creating greater ambivalence toward the war and confusion in remembering it. It is not surprising therefore that the books in "The Occupation Trilogy" are often described as "angry." Indeed, Rousso characterizes Modiano's early work "as an anguished, frenetic meditation over the shards of a mirror that he himself helped to smash....he seems to be saying that no logic, no rational and reassuring organization, can restore to memory its lost coherence." Readers familiar with Modiano's work will have come to grips with his unusual chronological sequencing and the permeability of those filters which separate reality and fiction. Even so, the intensity of the three novels in "The Occupation Trilogy" may still startle, especially the somewhat hallucinatory "La Place de l'etoile."
21 of 22 people found the following review helpful. Frank and Stunning Portraits of French Collaboration By James Ellsworth This is high literature in the FRENCH tradition and not necessarily to American tastes. That is to say that the work exhibits a biting irony and the fine perfume of decadence in one of the most amoral of times--the era of the Vichy government and of the German Occupation of Paris during World War II. With the hindsight of a Nobel Laureate prize, it is possible for many more of us to admit the daring and the scope of this trilogy. It helps immeasurably that the work is now translated into a fine and idiomatic English prose from the probably even finer French.We have here three short novels that could only persuasively have been written by a French Jew with a lasting European perspective. The overall work deals with the unlovely topic of 'collaboration' with the World War II Vichy Government and with the more Germanic occupation of the Northern part of France, including its jewel, Paris. In this novel, Paris and the 'evasive' nature of Parisian culture is lovingly evoked. The landscape and streetscape are called out in detail. Memories are treasured...even if they are ambiguous, decadent or even treacherous. The overarching story is that one is placed on earth and one lives with what one is given...and the whole confection is not necessarily 'sweet.'Each of these short novels is fine but they gather resonance by standing together. As I read the first novelette, 'La Place de L'Ettoile', is an unsparing look at collaboration based on 'identity' politics. Even the French Jews who collaborated are 'called out' by name. Equally daring, the then young writer, Modiano, called out Zionists who created kibbutz's which he depicts as closely equal to Aryan racial supremacist communities. This is strong stuff but this author is calling the game as he sees it!As I read Modiano, European Jews belong in Europe. By extension, American Jews belong in the country their forbears contributed to...OURS! Modiano shows Jewry suffering wherever...but seems to urge the strong to 'fight the good fight' and to stay to enrich the land in which their ancestors made a place.The first novel, 'La Place d' Etoile', is suitably 'French' in its languor and its dizzying panoply of images and in its disorientation and in its sultry depictions of decadence. Our Jewish hero is caught unprepared for the demands the fall of France will place upon him. He capitulates based solely on his will to survive (in the manner of what he calls Jewish 'rats' who have weathered centuries of pogroms and who have developed prodigious coping skills) and on his unfortunate erudition which has led him to a position of moral relativism.The second novelette, 'The Night Watch', continues in the heavy vein of French irony and black humor that one also finds in films of the 1960's through 1980's. Our 'night watch' man is a double agent youth of Jewish extraction. He also lacks a moral compass, aside from his determination to save his mother and to provide for her no matter what odious things he has to do as a collaborator. In this story, we meet a delicious and decadent and totally loathsome group of profiteers and careerists such as can be found on every side of a world at war.The third novelette follows a young Jewish man who tries desperately to save his father, a war profiteer and grifter from 'day one' of his life in Alexandria. They are now in Paris. Ten years previously, the father has tried to kill his son...possibly to spare him from the 'difficult times' in which they were living. The loving evocation of Paris and its neighborhoods continues. Father and son are so equally ambiguous in their morals and in their taste for louche company that one thinks a bit of an apple not falling far from the tree--but the son is far more modern that is his Levantine father. Can we save our parents or their world? With a world such as these two generations found themselves living in, would one want to? The powerful trilogy continues 'fresh' and with 'punch' to the end.'So things go: and this should already be enough to motivate serious readers to buy this book and to read it for its admirable combination of loathing for the times and the people it, in part, produced and for its honest and lasting legacy of what Collaboration truly can involve and how corrosive Collaboration can be to even less than honest souls.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Vichy government France eyewitness tale from someone born after the war By S. Sur You need to be literate of the history of the Vichy government and the hidden antisemitism of the early 1940ies. It would help to know place names in Paris also. It is an interesting read once you get into it start to catch on to the author's sense of humor. Recommended with these caveats to literary types.
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