Promenade Dora-Bruder
Adam Shatz: Patrick Modiano, 22 September 2016
So You Don’t Get Lost in the Neighbourhood
by Patrick Modiano, translated by Euan Cameron.
MacLehose, 160 pp., £8.99, September 2016,978 0 85705 499 9 Show More
by Patrick Modiano, translated by Euan Cameron.
MacLehose, 160 pp., £8.99, September 2016,
“... In 1966, a young writer named Patrick Modiano published his first short story, a satire set in a summer concentration camp called ‘Saint-Tropez-Ravensbrück’. Surrounded by ‘charming Kapos’, the inmates – ‘children of Himmler and Coca-Cola’ – are lulled into submission by LSD and hedonism. Paris’s leading artists and intellectuals praise the camp; Jean-Luc Godard offers to shoot a collaborationist film ... ”