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Patrick Modiano: References & Edit History

Additional Reading

Among a surprisingly large number of English-language critical studies of Modiano are Alan Morris, Patrick Modiano (1996), and Patrick Modiano (2000), two separate monographs; William VanderWolk, Rewriting the Past: Memory, History and Narration in the Novels of Patrick Modiano (1997); William VanderWolk and Martine Guyot-Bender (eds.), Paradigms of Memory: The Occupation and Other Hi/Stories in the Novels of Patrick Modiano (1998); Akane Kawakami, A Self-Conscious Art: Patrick Modiano’s Postmodern Fictions (2000); Dervila Cooke, Present Pasts: Patrick Modiano’s (Auto)Biographical Fictions (2005); and John E. Flower (ed.), Patrick Modiano (2007).

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Type Description Contributor Date
First paragraph modernization. May 08, 2024
Anniversary information added. Jul 26, 2023
Added the book Invisible Ink. Jan 28, 2021
Added the novel Sleep of Memory. May 31, 2019
Modified title of Web site: Nobelprize.org - Biography of Patrick Modiano. Jan 06, 2017
Noted the publication of an English translation of Un Pedigree. Jan 29, 2016
Added photograph. Jul 01, 2015
Add new Web site: Nobelprize.org - Biography of Patrick Modiano. Jun 26, 2015
New article added. Oct 14, 2014
New bibliography added. Oct 14, 2014
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