Patrick Modiano : 'A Marcel Proust of our time’?

Morris, Alan (2015) Patrick Modiano : 'A Marcel Proust of our time’? French Studies Bulletin, 36 (134). pp. 1-3. ISSN 0262-2750 (https://doi.org/10.1093/frebul/ktv001)

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Abstract

The winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature was, in more ways than one, Patrick Modiano. Typically, the publicity-shy novelist had crept in under the radar, despite a late surge in the betting, and had even proved hard to locate once the decision had been taken. In terms of his artistic achievements, however, the Nobel Academy had no trouble in pinning him down. He was, their spokesman, Peter Englund, asserted, a ‘Marcel Proust of our time’.1 It is the aim of the present article briefly to explore this notion, and to evaluate just how apposite an assessment it is.

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Morris, Alan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6321-6023;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:53788
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    13 March 2015
    Published
    29 January 2015
    Accepted
    Keywords:Patrick Modiano, nobel prize for literature, biography, Language and Literature, Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics, History, Literature and Literary Theory, Cultural Studies
    Subjects:Language and Literature
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > School of Humanities > French
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:16 Jul 2015 10:43
    Last modified:26 Nov 2022 03:45
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/53788
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