La place de l'étoile
Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation. Raphael Schlemilovitch, a French Jew born just after the war, is haunted by the war and by thoughts of persecution. He is the narrator of his own story told in a hallucinatory manner mixing reality and fictitious personal inventions. He is torn between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing; he may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune, may have lived during the Nazi Occupation, may have rubbed should…
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- Full title :La place de l'étoile / Patrick Modiano.
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Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation. Raphael Schlemilovitch, a French Jew born just after the war, is haunted by the war and by thoughts of persecution. He is the narrator of his own story told in a hallucinatory manner mixing reality and fictitious personal inventions. He is torn between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing; he may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune, may have lived during the Nazi Occupation, may have rubbed shoulders with the most notorious collaborators and anti-Semites of the time, may even have been the lover of Eva Braun. But all this appears to be simply an illusion because after a final scene where all the characters reappear, Schlemilovitch finds himself on a couch in Vienna in the process of being psychoanalyzed by a doctor whom he takes to be doctor Freud. But at the center of this vortex is 'La Place de l'Étoile'--the Place of the Star--which is both the geographical and moral center of Paris, and that place next the heart where French Jews were compelled to wear the yellow star, the symbol of their persecution.
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- Publication Date:©1968
- Edition:Edition revue et corrigée
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Gallimard
- Place of Publication:Paris
- Language:fre
- Publication Date:©1968
Notes
"297773"--Last page of book.
"A 36698, catégorie F6"--Back cover.
The Physical Object
- Description:210 pages ; : 18 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9782070366989, 2070366987
- oclc:ocn960056061
- LC Classification:PQ2673.O3
- Dewey Decimal:843/.914
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