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In the Cafe of Lost Youth (New York Review Books Classics) - VERY GOOD 2016 NYRB
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- ISBN
- 9781590179536
- Book Title
- In the Café of Lost Youth
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
- Publication Year
- 2016
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.4in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Psychological, Contemporary Women, Literary
- Item Width
- 5in
- Item Weight
- 5.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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NYRB Classics Original Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In 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 (depicted in the photographs of Ed van der Elsken) of the notorious and charismatic Guy Debord, centers on the enigmatic, waiflike figure of Louki, who catches everyone's attention even as she eludes possession or comprehension. Through the eyes of four very different narrators, including Louki herself, we contemplate her character and her fate, while Modiano explores the themes of identity, memory, time, and forgetting that are at the heart of his spellbinding and deeply moving art.
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Publisher
New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-10
1590179536
ISBN-13
9781590179536
eBay Product ID (ePID)
212742260
Product Key Features
Book Title
In the Café of Lost Youth
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Psychological, Contemporary Women, Literary
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
5in
Item Weight
5.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pq2673.O3d3613 2016
Reviews
"[M]odiano at his height. In 1950s Paris, a young woman nicknamed Louki haunts a caf called the Cond, casting a decided allure yet remaining mysterious and unknowable. A young hanger-on, the husband she abandoned, the detective searching for her--all try to grasp her and fail. Not unexpectedly, Modiano withholds her secret life to the end." -- Library Journal , starred review " In the Caf of Lost Youth is a kind of suspense story. It is a story about the many facets of a single woman but also, unquestionably, a story about the multiple worlds within Paris, a city that, as much as any individual human being, remains essentially unknowable. It casts a near hypnotic spell." --Douglas Kennedy, L'Express "Every area described is also imbued with layers of emotion. . . . Readers are left haunted by the cityscape Modiano paints." --Henri Astier, The Times Literary Supplement "Modiano's books develop a different tone, one more mellow and melancholic, somewhere between sepia and film noir, more akin to the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson than to the work of other writers." --Rachel Donadio, The New York Times "[An] edge of mystery, of indirection, motivates [Modiano's work] like an animating force...a vivid air of the conditional, which is, of course, the whole idea. For Modiano, memory, experience are fluid, fleeting, and even the stories we tell ourselves are subject to change. Our lives flicker past us like the afterimage of a photo; eventually, our attempts at constancy must fall away."--David Ulin, Los Angeles Times "Modiano is a pure original. He has transformed the novel into a laboratory for producing atmospheres, not situations--where everything must be inferred and nothing can be proved."--Adam Thirwell, The Guardian "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, The New Republic "The genius of Modiano's work lies in how it straddles the very real moral chaos of post-Vichy France and his creation of an idiosyncratic milieu. Patrick Modiano goes beyond the checklist accuracies of historical fiction, fashioning a lush fever dream filled with glamor, mystery, and despair." --Karl Wolff, New York Journal of Books "[C]arefully, artfully constructed...[an] impressive, accomplished work." --M.A. Orthofer, Complete Review, "[M]odiano at his height. In 1950s Paris, a young woman nicknamed Louki haunts a café called the Condé, casting a decided allure yet remaining mysterious and unknowable. A young hanger-on, the husband she abandoned, the detective searching for her--all try to grasp her and fail. Not unexpectedly, Modiano withholds her secret life to the end." -- Library Journal , starred review " In the Café of Lost Youth is a kind of suspense story. It is a story about the many facets of a single woman but also, unquestionably, a story about the multiple worlds within Paris, a city that, as much as any individual human being, remains essentially unknowable. It casts a near hypnotic spell." --Douglas Kennedy, L'Express "Every area described is also imbued with layers of emotion. . . . Readers are left haunted by the cityscape Modiano paints." --Henri Astier, The Times Literary Supplement "Modiano's books develop a different tone, one more mellow and melancholic, somewhere between sepia and film noir, more akin to the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson than to the work of other writers." --Rachel Donadio, The New York Times "[An] edge of mystery, of indirection, motivates [Modiano's work] like an animating force...a vivid air of the conditional, which is, of course, the whole idea. For Modiano, memory, experience are fluid, fleeting, and even the stories we tell ourselves are subject to change. Our lives flicker past us like the afterimage of a photo; eventually, our attempts at constancy must fall away."--David Ulin, Los Angeles Times "Modiano is a pure original. He has transformed the novel into a laboratory for producing atmospheres, not situations--where everything must be inferred and nothing can be proved."--Adam Thirwell, The Guardian "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, The New Republic, "[M]odiano at his height. In 1950s Paris, a young woman nicknamed Louki haunts a café called the Condé, casting a decided allure yet remaining mysterious and unknowable. A young hanger-on, the husband she abandoned, the detective searching for her--all try to grasp her and fail. Not unexpectedly, Modiano withholds her secret life to the end." -- Library Journal , starred review " In the Café of Lost Youth is a kind of suspense story. It is a story about the many facets of a single woman but also, unquestionably, a story about the multiple worlds within Paris, a city that, as much as any individual human being, remains essentially unknowable. It casts a near hypnotic spell." --Douglas Kennedy, L'Express "Every area described is also imbued with layers of emotion. . . . Readers are left haunted by the cityscape Modiano paints." --Henri Astier, The Times Literary Supplement "Modiano's books develop a different tone, one more mellow and melancholic, somewhere between sepia and film noir, more akin to the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson than to the work of other writers." --Rachel Donadio, The New York Times "[An] edge of mystery, of indirection, motivates [Modiano's work] like an animating force...a vivid air of the conditional, which is, of course, the whole idea. For Modiano, memory, experience are fluid, fleeting, and even the stories we tell ourselves are subject to change. Our lives flicker past us like the afterimage of a photo; eventually, our attempts at constancy must fall away."--David Ulin, Los Angeles Times "Modiano is a pure original. He has transformed the novel into a laboratory for producing atmospheres, not situations--where everything must be inferred and nothing can be proved."--Adam Thirwell, The Guardian "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, The New Republic "The genius of Modiano's work lies in how it straddles the very real moral chaos of post-Vichy France and his creation of an idiosyncratic milieu. Patrick Modiano goes beyond the checklist accuracies of historical fiction, fashioning a lush fever dream filled with glamor, mystery, and despair." --Karl Wolff, New York Journal of Books "[C]arefully, artfully constructed...[an] impressive, accomplished work." --M.A. Orthofer, Complete Review, "[M]odiano at his height. In 1950s Paris, a young woman nicknamed Louki haunts a café called the Condé, casting a decided allure yet remaining mysterious and unknowable. A young hanger-on, the husband she abandoned, the detective searching for her--all try to grasp her and fail. Not unexpectedly, Modiano withholds her secret life to the end." -- Library Journal , starred review " In the Café of Lost Youth is a kind of suspense story. It is a story about the many facets of a single woman but also, unquestionably, a story about the multiple worlds within Paris, a city that, as much as any individual human being, remains essentially unknowable. It casts a near hypnotic spell." --Douglas Kennedy, L'Express "Every area described is also imbued with layers of emotion. . . . Readers are left haunted by the cityscape Modiano paints." --Henri Astier, The Times Literary Supplement "Modiano's books develop a different tone, one more mellow and melancholic, somewhere between sepia and film noir, more akin to the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson than to the work of other writers." --Rachel Donadio, The New York Times "[An] edge of mystery, of indirection, motivates [Modiano's work] like an animating force...a vivid air of the conditional, which is, of course, the whole idea. For Modiano, memory, experience are fluid, fleeting, and even the stories we tell ourselves are subject to change. Our lives flicker past us like the afterimage of a photo; eventually, our attempts at constancy must fall away."--David Ulin, Los Angeles Times "Modiano is a pure original. He has transformed the novel into a laboratory for producing atmospheres, not situations--where everything must be inferred and nothing can be proved."--Adam Thirwell, The Guardian "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, The New Republic "[C]arefully, artfully constructed...[an] impressive, accomplished work." --M.A. Orthofer, Complete Review, "[An] edge of mystery, of indirection, motivates [Modiano's work] like an animating force...a vivid air of the conditional, which is, of course, the whole idea. For Modiano, memory, experience are fluid, fleeting, and even the stories we tell ourselves are subject to change. Our lives flicker past us like the afterimage of a photo; eventually, our attempts at constancy must fall away."--David Ulin, Los Angeles Times "Modiano is a pure original. He has transformed the novel into a laboratory for producing atmospheres, not situations--where everything must be inferred and nothing can be proved."--Adam Thirwell, The Guardian "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, The New Republic
Copyright Date
2016
Lccn
2015-039566
Dewey Decimal
843/.914
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
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