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Patrick Modiano

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Patrick Modiano

プロフィール

性別
男性
生誕
1945-07-30 (Boulogne-Billancourt, France)
国籍
France
言語
French

経歴

職業
Novelist
活動期間
1968年〜
所属団体
Member of the Prix Contrepoint jury
影響を受けた人物
Raymond Queneau, Marcel Proust

学歴

Lycée Henri-IV
期間: 初等〜中等教育
卒業年: 1964
国: France
Completed secondary education. Later attended the Sorbonne but did not obtain a degree.
Sorbonne (University of Paris)
期間: 1965(在籍・単位取得なし)
国: France
Enrolled in 1965 to defer military service; did not complete a degree.

受賞歴

Fénéon Prize
1968
対象作品: La Place de l'Étoile
結果: 受賞
Prix Roger-Nimier
1968
対象作品: La Place de l'Étoile
結果: 受賞
Grand Prix du roman de l'Académie française
1972
対象作品: Ring Roads
主催: Académie française
結果: 受賞
Prix Goncourt
1978
対象作品: Missing Person
結果: 受賞
Prix mondial Cino Del Duca
2010
対象作品: For his body of work
主催: Institut de France
結果: 受賞
Austrian State Prize for European Literature
2012
対象作品: For his body of work
結果: 受賞
Nobel Prize in Literature
2014
対象作品: For the art of memory
主催: Swedish Academy
結果: 受賞

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

La Place de l'Étoile

1968年 Novel (wartime, autofiction elements)

A wartime novel about a Jewish collaborator; an early work exploring memory and moral ambiguity.

MemoryWorld War IIIdentityGuilt and shame
翻訳
  • English translation included in The Occupation Trilogy (Bloomsbury, 2015)

Missing Person

1978年 Novel (detective-like, memory labyrinth)

The protagonist suffers from amnesia and searches for his past; a portrayal of lost identity and fragmented memory.

Lost memorySelf-searchParis
翻訳
  • English translation: Missing Person

Dora Bruder

1997年 Hybrid biography/autobiography/detective

Tracing the story of a teenage girl found in a 1941 missing-person notice; a reconstruction that blends biography, autobiography and investigation.

The HolocaustRecovery of memoryHistory and the individual
翻訳
  • English translations: The Search Warrant / Dora Bruder

Pedigree: A Memoir

2004年 Memoir / Autobiographical

A memoir that calmly recounts family history and childhood memories, searching for origins through fragments.

Family historyLossMemory
翻訳
  • English translation: Pedigree: A Memoir

L'Horizon

2011年 Novel

Follows Jean Bosmans, haunted by his mother's ghost, as he recalls youth and searches for a vanished love; explores loss and memory.

DisappearanceNostalgiaTraces of time
翻訳
  • Translated into English

全著作

  • La Place de l'Étoile (1968)
  • The Night Watch / Night Rounds (1969)
  • Ring Roads (1972)
  • Missing Person (1978)
  • Dora Bruder (1997)
  • Pedigree: A Memoir (2004)
  • So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood (2014)

翻案

  • Une jeunesse (film, 1983)
  • Le Parfum d'Yvonne (from Villa Triste, 1994)
  • Te quiero (from Dimanches d'août, 2001)
  • Charell (short film, 2006, from De si braves garçons)

作品の翻訳

  • Works translated into more than 30 languages including English, German, Chinese
  • Major English translators: Mark Polizzotti, Frank Wynne, Damion Searls, others

作風・主題

文体
Lyrical and economical proseAutofictional blending of autobiography and fictionFragmentary and repetitive narration
頻出モチーフ
Memory and oblivionThe Occupation (WWII) periodParisian cityscapeSearch for lost identity

評価・遺産

Regarded as one of contemporary France's significant writers for his literary treatment of memory and the traces of the past. International recognition rose after the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature.

引用

  • “For the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation.”
    出典: Swedish Academy (Nobel citation) (2014年)
  • “He uses almost non-existent documentation to endow the past with entrancing life.”
    出典: Award ceremony speech (Jesper Svenbro) (2014年)

豆知識

  • First language in childhood was Flemish, taught by his maternal grandparents
  • Paternal family of Italo-Jewish origin, with roots in Thessaloniki
  • Before the Nobel Prize, many of his major works had not been translated into English