Suspended Sentences

Resumen del libro

A trio of intertwined novellas from the 2014 Nobel laureate for literature


In this essential trilogy of novellas by the winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, French author Patrick Modiano reaches back in time, opening the corridors of memory and exploring the mysteries to be encountered there. Each novella in the volume--Afterimage, Suspended Sentences, and Flowers of Ruin-represents a sterling example of the author's originality and appeal, while Mark Polizzotti's superb English-language translations capture not only Modiano's distinctive narrative voice but also the matchless grace and spare beauty of his prose.

Although originally published separately, Modiano's three novellas form a single, compelling whole, haunted by the same gauzy sense of place and characters. Modiano draws on his own experiences, blended with the real or invented stories of others, to present a dreamlike autobiography that is also the biography of a place. Orphaned children, mysterious parents, forgotten friends, enigmatic strangers-each appears in this three-part love song to a Paris that no longer exists.

Shadowed by the dark period of the Nazi Occupation, these novellas reveal Modiano's fascination with the lost, obscure, or mysterious: a young person's confusion over adult behavior; the repercussions of a chance encounter; the search for a missing father; the aftershock of a fatal affair. To read Modiano's trilogy is to enter his world of uncertainties and the almost accidental way in which people find their fates.

Biografía del autor

x{0026}lt;p x{0026}lt;strong Patrick Modiano x{0026}lt;/strong (Boulogne-Billancourt, 1945), uno de los mejores novelistas contemporáneos, ha recibido entre otros numerosísimos galardones el Premio Nobel, que le fue concedido en 2014. En Anagrama se han publicado todas sus últimas novelas: x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Un pedigríx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em En el café de la juventud perdidax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El horizontex{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La hierba de las nochesx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Para que no te pierdas en el barriox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Recuerdos durmientes x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Tinta simpáticax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , así como la pieza teatral x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Nuestros comienzos en la vida x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y su x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Discurso en la Academia Suecax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong . También se han rescatado novelas anteriores tan significativas como x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Trilogía de la Ocupación x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em El lugar de la estrellax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em La ronda nocturna x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Los paseos de circunvalaciónx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong ), x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Villa Tristex{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Libro de familiax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Calle de las Tiendas Oscuras x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong (Premio Goncourt), x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Una juventudx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Tan buenos chicosx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Domingos de agostox{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Ropero de la infanciax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Viaje de noviosx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Tres desconocidasx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Accidente nocturno x{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong y x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Joyitax{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , además del guión de x{0026}lt;strong x{0026}lt;em Lacombe Lucienx{0026}lt;/em x{0026}lt;/strong , escrito en colaboración con Louis Malle.x{0026}lt;/p