About nightclubs in modiano.

Modiano wrote in Nightclub: "My past is hazy ..." What about our past? Some things have happened for a long time, but it seems to have happened yesterday. Some people have been away for many years (not necessarily dead, such as lovers breaking up), but they still live in our hearts; What will happen to us in the future, whether some things will happen or not, we can't know; We can't arrange whether some people will leave.

Patrick modiano is one of the famous writers who are still active in the French literary world and deeply loved by readers. He was born in a wealthy family in the southwest suburb of Nabiyan on July 30th, 1945. My father was Jewish, engaged in smuggling activities during World War II, and worked in the financial sector after the war. His mother is a Belgian actress. He had a brother, Derek lv, who died young.

Modiano loved literature since he was a child. He wrote poetry at the age of 10, and showed great interest in novel creation at the age of 14 and 15. 1965 Graduated from Henry IV Middle School in Paris, then studied at Sorbonne University in Paris, and dropped out of school one year later, specializing in literary creation.

1968, modiano published his first novel "Star Square", which made him a shining star in French literature with fantastic content and novel and unique writing style. His literary talent attracted the attention of critics, and this novel won the Roger Nemir Prize that year. Later, he published several works in succession, almost all of which won prizes. 1969, Night Patrol won the diamond tip award. 1972, "Ring Road" won the novel award of the French Academy. 1974, he collaborated with the famous director Louis Marr to create the screenplay Lacombe Pig Lv Xian. After it was put on the screen, it became one of the representative films in the 1970s and won an Oscar. 1975, Bleak House won the bookseller award. 1977, an autobiographical household registration book was published. 1978, Man Jie won the Gonggur Literature Prize.

Apart from the fact that Bleak House is an indirect narrative of the Algerian war, one of the similarities in modiano's early novels is the theme of the period when France was occupied by the Germans in World War II. Through the story of a Jewish French youth, Star Square reflects the life at the bottom of French society and the plight of Jews in the occupation years. The narrator of Night Patrol is a double spy who works for the Gestapo and the resistance movement at the same time, and finally goes to a dead end under the pressure of both sides. Ring Road is the story of a son looking for his father. An old yellow photo evokes the narrator's memories of the past. He returned to the years of panic and chaos during the occupation, and finally found his missing father among black market profiteers, swindlers, French traitors working for Deku and hunted Jews. Lacombe Pig Lv Xian tells the story of a young French farmer who worked for the German police and saved a Jewish woman out of love.

It is not difficult to see that although modiano was born after the war and did not experience the occupation era personally, it is the author's lingering idea to recreate the atmosphere of this era. This theme is fully expressed in Dark Streets.

The narrator of Storm in the Street is a private detective who suffers from forgetfulness. In order to find his true identity and understand his experience in the first half of his life, he tirelessly searched for the trace of the person who might be himself, his relatives and friends, the place where they were born or lived, and even crossed the ocean to an island in French Polynesia to find his young friends. His subjects of investigation include Russian exiles, stateless refugees, restaurant or bar owners, piano players in nightclubs, food column editors, gardeners of ancient castles, photographers, jockeys and so on. These surveys bring readers back to the occupation era when the author has a soft spot. It reproduces some aspects of French social life in this dark period. In this sense, the author of the novel inherits the realistic writing skills.

However, modiano's works are different from traditional realistic novels: the combination of truth and imagination, the interweaving of the present and the past, and the superposition of different spaces. The narrator of Star Square was born in 1940, but he is also a 20-year-old youth. The narrator of the household registration has advanced memories: "I am only 20 years old, but I have memories before I was born." For example, I must have lived in Paris during the occupation. " Novelists often break the boundaries between time and space, mixing fragmented memories into the current narrative, leaving us plenty of reading space. There are 47 episodes of Storm on the Street, which span more than 20 years. The locations involved include many neighborhoods in Paris, Valbures, Vichy, Petain puppet government in Orn province, Mogfe, a small town not far from the Swiss border in Haut-Savoie province, Valparaiso in Chile and Paddy Island in the Pacific Ocean ... Different times and places are staggered, waiting for readers to regroup and put together like a puzzle. But these fragments are difficult to combine seamlessly. In the process of the narrator and the protagonist's persistent search for their true identity, they often fail because of some details. He and his witnesses in the first half of his life seem to "leave only a cloud of rapidly disappearing water vapor". They "suddenly appeared from nothingness, flashed a few times, and then returned to nothingness." But the narrator is not desperate. He decided to go to No.2 Anpu Street in Rome, Italy, according to the old address of the person who might be himself, and make one last attempt.

In 1980s, the theme and method of modiano's creation changed. He no longer cares about the occupation years and seeks the identity of a hero. However, tracing back to the past still occupies an important position in his works, including Youth (198 1), Such an Honest Boy (1982), Lost Street (1984) and Sunday in August (. Restoring history is not the author's purpose. He tried to create a changeable and complicated atmosphere like Simonon's detective novels, a mental and psychological atmosphere with clear and accurate language.

Modiano's works are compact in structure, fluent in writing and refined in language. Although there are no earth-shattering events and complicated plots, the profound connotation and the author's artistic attainments make his novels fascinating and unforgettable.