Noble Prize winner, Patrick Modiano, SUSPENDED SENTENCES
A friend gave me this Noble Prize winning author's book, which contains three novellas for Christmas. In our post Christmas New Year's conversation, she told me she and her mother had read the last of the novellas over the Christmas holiday. So I commenced to join them and found the words hypnotic, requiring me to continue reading these 3 and 5 page chapters, nearly finishing, or perhaps finishing in one day's reading. Modiani's novella has to be read slowly, savoring phrases that linger in the mind. He is concerned, in a dream like manner, with loss, with lost people, with people who have lost their identities, or have hidden themselves, or assumed other identities. In other words, with characters who are different than they seem. I felt he was preoccupied with collaborists with the Nazis when Germany occupied France, and that had probably earned him the Noble Prize as it is not a part of history treated often. I might have surmised that he was Jew...