Memories of Chevreuse
May 17, 2024
Patrick Modiano— Leaving Chevreuse, there’s a bend in the road, then a narrow tree-lined highway. After a few miles, the entrance to a village, and soon you were running alongside… READ MORE
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Celebrating International Translation Day 2022
September 30, 2022
Yale University Press is pleased to join with all those who celebrate International Translation Day on September 30, 2022 to recognize and appreciate the vital role that translators play in… READ MORE
A Conversation with Patrick Modiano
December 18, 2020
The latest work from Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano, Invisible Ink is a spellbinding tale of memory and its illusions. Private detective Jean Eyben receives an assignment to locate a missing woman,… READ MORE
Escape through Fiction
May 21, 2020
There is something to be said about leaving reality behind for a bit. These works of fiction will take you around the world and beyond. “If China has one possibility… READ MORE
“Do You Live in Paris?”
February 17, 2020
Patrick Modiano— She introduced me to her brother a few weeks after we’d met, a brother she had never mentioned before. Once or twice I’d tried to find out more… READ MORE
Do You Know China?
December 27, 2019
Patrick Modiano— At what point in my life did I meet Henri Marignan? Oh, I couldn’t have been twenty at the time. I think of him often. Sometimes he seems… READ MORE
A Conversation Between Patrick Modiano Translators Mark Polizzotti and Damion Searls
August 14, 2017
On the heels of our publication of Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano’s Such Fine Boys and Sundays in August in English, two of his esteemed translators sat down to discuss Modiano’s idiosyncratic… READ MORE
Patrick Modiano on Childhood
December 9, 2015
In the past year, Patrick Modiano has been hailed by American book critics for his Nobel Prize-winning literary art, rightly described as “elegant,” “haunting,” and “urbane.” In books such as Suspended Sentences,… READ MORE
Paris Nocturne
November 20, 2015
Patrick Modiano— Late at night, a long time ago, when I was about to turn twenty-one, I was crossing Place des Pyramides on my way to Place de la Concorde… READ MORE
Patrick Modiano’s Paris
August 25, 2015
Mark Polizzotti— The Paris of Patrick Modiano’s fictions is a city that no longer exists, and perhaps never did. There is a character and a topology typical of his version… READ MORE
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