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You were right to tell me that in life it is not the future which counts, but the past.

Missing Person by Patrick Modiano

October 4, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

I am starting to wonder if once you’ve read on Patrick Modiano novel, you’ve read them all. I’ve read three now, and two seem more or less identical in ways to each other, or more so like body and shadow to one another. This novel begins at the end of WWII and Guy Roland is trying to recoup his own identity, lost in the haziness, violence, and subterfuge of the French Resistance. He’s now working as a kind of metaphysical detective retracing the steps he’s able […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: missing person, patrick modiano

vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:547 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: missing person, patrick modiano ·
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Admix of Newer fiction

September 30, 2017 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Eat Only When You’re Hungry – Lindsay Hunter 3/5  This is a weird and gross book and also a sad and a touching book. Ostensibly, it’s a story about the divorced and remarried father of an addict who has gone missing looking for him in his old haunts. In addition, we are treated to a history of the failed first marriage and various other kinds of stories related to a life lived and now reflected upon. That’s why it’s sad and touching and sweet at […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: eat only when you're hungry, lindsay hunter, little nothing, marisa silver, mia couto, patrick modiano, the black notebook, the confessions of the lioness

vel veeter's CBR9 Review No:394 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: eat only when you're hungry, lindsay hunter, little nothing, marisa silver, mia couto, patrick modiano, the black notebook, the confessions of the lioness ·
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