TY - BOOK ID - 1748309 TI - Present pasts: Patrick Modiano's (auto)biographical fictions PY - 2005 VL - 255 SN - 9042018844 9401202419 1423791606 9781423791607 9789042018846 PB - Amsterdam Rodopi DB - UniCat KW - Modiano, Patrick KW - Modiano, Patrick, KW - Criticism and interpretation KW - Modiano, Patrick, - 1945- - Criticism and interpretation KW - Модиано, Патрик, KW - Modiano, Patrik, KW - Criticism and interpretation. KW - Modiano, Patrick, - 1945 KW - -Modiano, Patrick UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1748309 AB - This is the first in-depth study of the twelve Modiano texts specifically concerned with life-writing in autobiographical and biographical-cum-historiographical projects. The texts covered range from La Place de l’étoile (1968) through to La Petite Bijou (2001). Close textual analysis is combined with a theoretical approach based on current thinking in autobiography, biography, and reader-response. Modiano’s use of autofiction and biofiction is analysed in the light of his continuing obsession with both personal trauma and History, as well as his problematic relationship with his paternally-inherited Jewish links. His view of identity (of self and other) is thus discussed in relation to a particular literary and socio-historical context– French, postmodern, post-World War II, and post-Holocaust. ER -