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Mauchaussé, Emilie. "Phénomène Modiano nescience et naissance d'un écrivain /." Connect to this document online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1137082948.
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Young, Jennifer Ann. "Deuil d'une (in)connue." Oxford, Ohio : Miami University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=miami1228099928.
Full textFeng, Shounong. "Problématique de l'identité chez Patrick Modiano." Besançon, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995BESA1046.
Full textIn the light of the taoist monisme of the chinese thinking, we have first of all tried to follow the origin of the literary creation of P. Modiano, an origin residing in the search for a father which pushes him to lean on the occupation. In order to portary a world in the twilight glow, the wtiter gives it a symbolic atmosphere. The lack of identity of the sews during the occupation is preoccupation in his work. Departing from this problem, he deals with the identity of the human being, passing by that of France under the occupation, that of the wtiter, and that of the contemporary young generation. Our analysis has revealed the total co-relation of problems of identity in his work. The problem of identity in P. Modiano work consists of going from a particular problem to the more general problem of identity ; of going deceper into it from the point of view of human existence the modianese caracters are most of them mean of nothing. The nothing constitutes therefore a quality that beings without identity have in common. All the analysis of this thesis was based and developed around this is idea. Starting from the chinese philosophical couple "yin and yang" we have formulated a couple "nothing and all" to try and describe the duality that exists in his work. The antinomic duality (nothing and all) crosses all the levels of the whole themes, space, time etc. And also becomes a principle of construction of symetrical structures in the novels of modiano. Inspired by the tableau of taiji (supreme unity) we descovered that a strucutre, whether whirlwind or spiral, acts on his work : notably concerning time, the occupation is at the center of the whirlwind which grew into the 60 s and 70s and even up to now. This spiral structure and the couple "nothing and all" serve as intermediaries which assure the internal coherence of his work
Laurent, Thierry. "L'autofiction dans les romans de Patrick Modiano." Paris 4, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1994PA040386.
Full textThe self-biographical allusions are very numerous in the novels of Patrick Modiano,but they are diluted in the fiction. .
Lee, Kwang Jin. "Famille impossible, identité possible chez Patrick Modiano." Paris 8, 2009. http://www.theses.fr/2009PA083055.
Full textThe Modiano protagonist is seeking to have both an ideal (perfect) and virtual (fantasy) family. Every scene not only represents the unconscious fantasies of the protagonist but also the major story for Modiano. We can see, on the path from research to mystification of the family, a typical dramatization. However, for the Modiano protagonist, the only family is the one of the novel. The family is impossible, but the novel is possible. Similarly, there is no new family, but only the New Family Novel : there is not only the novel but also the theatre (or circus). In reality, life is a circus both comical and grotesque at the same time. The family is lost, but for Modiano, it is impossible to find the thing that one once lost. It is better to re-create something new : instead of finding the family back, the protagonist writes something. In all the Modiano books, the question of identity begins and ends with that of writing. Our study aims to know how he establishes the link between identity and writing, how the process develops itself. The book is the golden key to enter the world of Modiano and the keyword to translate the mystery of life : literary creation is the only (re)solution for Modiano. The book is the free space that allows one to accomplish his mission which seems impossible : to live and re-live his life
Andrééva-Tintignac, Elena. "L'écriture de Patrick Modiano ou La Frustration de l'attente romanesque." Limoges, 2003. http://aurore.unilim.fr/theses/nxfile/default/6ccbc715-c642-4c36-9d67-9d9f5b0eb003/blobholder:0/2003LIMO2005.pdf.
Full textSrour, Pierre. "La métaphysique dans les romans de Patrick Modiano." Metz, 1994. http://docnum.univ-lorraine.fr/public/UPV-M/Theses/1994/Srour.Pierre.LMZ9413_1.pdf.
Full textAfter having highlighted in the first part the author's biography and the series of his novels published untill 1989, we go in the second part to the heart of the subject : to speak on the subject of "metaphysics" is also and especially to speak of "physics", as the raw material which the modianesque world is built upon, is nothing else but metaphysics itself, personified through the concrete places of his novels space. This stage is followed by the doubt about existence : to abstract and go beyond the blurred vision of the substance, by a phenomenon of shades and lights. The presence of a musical structure that rules Modiano's works, opens on happiness and proves that the maturation of time merges into the infinite and resolves the matter of identity. As for the character, his name does his destiny. In the third part, one attends the double jewish-christian identity of the modianesque man, as well as the kaleidoscopy of his being. Here, the father holds a most important place, through the image of an absurd or non absurd god, yet always omnipresent. As for the fourth part, it shows a blocking at the level of time, yet not without a serious attempt from the author towards opening and freedom
Demeyère, Annie. "Portraits de l'artiste dans l'oeuvre de Patrick Modiano." Paris 10, 2000. http://www.theses.fr/2000PA100156.
Full textCima, Denise. "Les images paternelles dans l'oeuvre de patrick modiano." Nantes, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998NANT3023.
Full textAlbert modiano having not registered himself as a jew, in 1941, was arrested and taken to the depot, an annexe of drancy, and freed by a french gestapo. But was it not for this event, sym- bolic of the ambiguities of the occupation, would patrick modiano have had the desire to become a genuine french writer ? this thesis takes into consideration all of modiano's published works. There are several approaches : literary, historic, sociocultural, psychoanalytic. The study contains three parts which concern the two ideas 'image' and 'pere'. The first part approaches the different types of paternity which are : parent, social father, surrogate and mentor, showing their social, psychological and sym- bolic importance. The second part focuses on albert modiano. Firstly, the thesis tries to recreate al- bert modiano's biography, which is made difficult by patrick modiano's use of fiction ; then, it deals with his father's multitude of 'doubles'. The 'person' becomes a 'character' whose image develops through the fictional parts of his works. The personal myth arises from the haunting metaphors, as a result his works have partly become a 'tombeau'. Finally, the authorship answers our question : mo- diano wanted to reply to the anti-semites and to give himself a cultural identity. Biographical elements and intertextualities were brought together to create modiano's recurrent themes of guilt, disappearance, the contradiction between forgetting and remembering in a very nostalgic way. His self-portraits reveal his profound purpose : to be a warden of memories and to erect a memorial for all those unknown in history whose traces time will erase. Has he exorcised the memory of his father ?
Delahaye, Francis. "L'invention de soi dans l'œuvre de Patrick Modiano." Thesis, Paris 4, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA040184.
Full textThis dissertation addresses the question of the invention of oneself by Patrick Modiano. The terms invention of oneself can be interpreted on three ways, depending on the manner the accent is made on the definition of identity, answering the question : “Who am I?”, or finding the ideas and arguments to prepare a discourse as it is done in the rhetoric or questioning one’s memory as nothing new can be invented. Amongst these three approaches, the first one about the question of identity is mainly studied with the literary tools, excluding the psychoanalytical view which is rejected by Patrick Modiano himself. A three steps approach is followed. At first we analyze how the Patrick Modiano’s romanesque art is influenced by History, mainly the history of the French collaboration during World War II but also by the history of the Algeria war at the beginning of the sixties, his literary sources mainly among French anti-Semite authors who published their books just before World War II, and of course his shared life, that is to say the life he is sharing with the readers. The following question concerns the literary genre of the novels written by an author using the I narrator. Is he writing novels, autobiographies or autofictions? The last issue is about the question of identity: what does it mean for Patrick Modiano to be born in 1945, to be the son of a supposed collaborator, or the son of a Jew, or to be a writer? Answering these different questions should help to approach the definition of the invention of oneself. Is it related to the invention of several birth dates, a false date for the wedding of his parents or imaginary family members for himself or on the opposite is it related to the invention of a new imaginary identity at each novel till the previous identity is abandoned and a new imaginary identity is created in the following novel?
Srour, Pierre Münch Marc-Mathieu. "LA METAPHYSIQUE DANS LES ROMANS DE PATRICK MODIANO /." [S.l.] : [s.n.], 1994. ftp://ftp.scd.univ-metz.fr/pub/Theses/1994/Srour.Pierre.LMZ9413_1.pdf.
Full textSchutz, Sabine. ""Une sale histoire" : die unbewältigte "Occupation" bei Patrick Modiano /." Frankfurt am Main ; Berlin ; Paris [etc.] : P. Lang, 1998. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb375395998.
Full textRoux, Baptiste. "Figures de l'Occupation dans les romans de Patrick Modiano." Paris 4, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998PA040052.
Full textIt seems that years of French occupation have had a great influence on Patrick Modiano's work - and being. Very few novels don't deal with this period, which is a cornerstone of the artist's writings. In order to make easier the understanding of the novelist's trauma, we propose a reflexion divided in three parts. First, we try to give a suggestive view of the work based upon World War II. Modiano mixes up reality and fantasy in a kind of vortex, which is the narrative translation of the author's discorded mind. This state of things finds its outcome in the original system of the stylistic devices used by Modiano. The question is studied in a second part of this work. The events don't always find their place in a logical way, so that the core of trauma is out of reach, covered by the layers of time. In fact, the narrator's strategy seems to be focused on a single spot, which is the hiding of tremor behind the shelter of forgery. At last, we try to show how the memory of French occupation plays an important part in the building of the author's personality. It seems obvious that the protagonists of Modiano's first books are essentially the specter of human beings. The disintegration of the soul is the best way to survive in the corrupted and ruthless world of occupation, and above all, the consequence of the loss of the father
Chen, Xiao-He. "Mémoire et quête dans quelques romans de Patrick Modiano." Paris 7, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992PA070072.
Full textA writer's work is a long thought-process. In order to unravel the virtual world underlying modiano's poetic forms, this study follows two different - though inter-related - itineraries : from temporal autonomy to spatial "memory", from a plurivocal voice expressing multifarious existential attitudes, to the "plastic" vision, the first part of this study relies upon the concepts of french literary criticism and traces the unifying process of the novel's world and the writer's viion. From the creativity inherent to the invisible to the space and time osmiosis, from the sign assemblage to the revelation of sense, the analysis conducted in the second part is based on ancient china's aesthetics and philosophy and intends to draw a parallel between modiano's creation and the creation. A system of signs and concepts originating in a antique culture which casts a new light upon modiano's poetics is being superimposed to the thematic, narratologic, semiologic and anthropologicalanalysis. This "dialogue" established between modiano's poetics and the oriental poetics of the universe highlights the dual contribution of modiano's work
Rudmann, Valeria <1988>. "Réviser un prix Nobel: Patrick Modiano, écrivain de l’angoisse." Master's Degree Thesis, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10579/8688.
Full textDavidovits, Florence. "L'ecriture de la nostalgie dans l oeuvre de modiano." Amiens, 1993. http://www.theses.fr/1993AMIE0004.
Full textThe aim of this thesis is to characterize the all-pervading nostalgia in the works of modiano and show how the style sustains this feeling. The first part seels to show how his nostalgia permeates the structure of the work, the searching which is its governing idea and also the subjects of this search. That established the second part endeavours to clucidate the bonds between nostalgia and memory, a memory the narrators seck to revive with multifarious means but which, paradoxically, is not so very precise. What the third part brings to light is that the confrontation with reality is the basis of nostalgia. A few rare objects remain but the people have desappeared; to preserve their memory only the writing remains
Quaglia, Elena. "L’identité juive en question : Irène Némirovsky, Patrick Modiano, Marc Weitzmann." Thesis, Paris 10, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017PA100052/document.
Full textJewishness, that is to say the personal and singular relationship that an individual experiences regarding their Jewish origins, finds significant resonance in certain literary works. If it is dangerous to assign writers an identity that in and of itself is problematic, it is nonetheless useful to interrogate their relationship with this identity as they make formal and thematic choices. This is less a question of finding a place for writing Jewishness within a canonical and minor literary corpus, instead related to questioning the changing forms of this writing as seen in various epochs and within various aesthetics. Through a corpus composed principally of the works of Irène Némirovsky, Patrick Modiano and Marc Weitzmann, this study examines the evolutions of relationships between writing and Jewishness over three generations of authors, as well as changes in the Jewishliterary consciousness as it faced historical and cultural realities over time. This means paying particular attention to the representation of Jewishness at the crossroads of autobiographical and social discourses. The works of Némirovsky, Modiano and Weitzmann are notably emblematic in their questioning of Jewish identity through a reappropriation of anti-Semitic discourses that is at times ambiguous and at times deflecting.Analyzing these texts, which appeared over the course of almost a century, allows us to open a particular perspective on French literature, including some of its most recent developments. Notably, the question of terrorism as it is linked to the situation in the Middle East, relations with Israel, and the memory of the camps as it becomes more often a post-memory, are at the center not only of Jewish writing, but more generally of trends throughout French literature. Even at the aesthetic level, today’s codified and widespread textual forms such as auto-fiction, “récit de filiation” or “roman archéologique” seem quite capable of hosting investigations of a fleeting or problematic Jewish identity
Fahlén, Bo. "La mémoire dans deux romans de Patrick Modiano : Une étude comparative." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-147227.
Full textSoukhodolskaia, Alisa. "Quête identitaire/enquête policière métaphysique dans trois romans de Patrick Modiano." Thesis, McGill University, 2011. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=104675.
Full textDe tous les écrivains qui s'inscrivent dans le courant postmoderne, Patrick Modiano est sûrement celui qui s'y sent le plus mal à l'aise. Sa prose est délibérément claire, donnant l'impression d'être traditionnelle et honnête. Pourtant, c'est justement le malaise qui fait de l'œuvre modianienne un fruit de la postmodernité, où ce sont les sentiments de désordre et d'incertitude qui dominent. Même l'identité n'y échappe pas : son éclatement reflète individuellement ce qui se passe collectivement.Dans Rue des boutiques obscures, Quartier Perdu et Voyage de noces, la quête identitaire se fait en parallèle avec l'enquête policière. L'usage que fait Modiano du roman policier est caractéristique du postmodernisme : il prend un genre éminemment fermé, lui emprunte ses clichés et ses conventions et termine en laissant la fin ouverte. Dans ces romans, trois détectives partent à la recherche de trois personnes disparues : eux-mêmes. Ils revisitent le passé pour tenter d'y trouver un sens à leurs vies, une base sur laquelle ils pourraient se construire une identité. Leurs parcours autant que leurs conclusions exposent les éléments qui forment l'« anti-roman policier ».
Kawakami, Akane. "Postmodern fictions : narrative and structure in the novels of Patrick Modiano." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.339164.
Full textMaurud, Müller Hélène. "Filiation et écriture de l'Histoire chez Patrick Modiano et Monika Maron." Phd thesis, Université de la Sorbonne nouvelle - Paris III, 2009. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00713803.
Full textSalama, Manal. "Fantasmes et angoisses dans les trois premiers romans de Patrick Modiano." Poitiers, 1999. http://www.theses.fr/1999POIT5002.
Full textMagaud, Céline. "Romans, écriture, identité : Paul Auster, Assia Djebar, Patrick Modiano, Toni Morrison." Paris 3, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001PA030002.
Full textHultkrantz, Jan. "La temporalité dans Encre sympathique et Souvenirs dormants de Patrick Modiano." Thesis, Stockholms universitet, Romanska och klassiska institutionen, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-190469.
Full textCima, Denise. "Les images paternelles dans l'œuvre de Patrick Modiano thèse pour obtenir le grade de docteur de l'Université de Nantes, Littérature française, présentée et soutenue publiquement le lundi 26 octobre 1998 /." Villeneuve d'Ascq : Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2000. http://books.google.com/books?id=0btcAAAAMAAJ.
Full textBando, Mariko. "La mémoire et la fiction dans les oeuvres romanesques de Patrick Modiano." Thesis, Limoges, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LIMO0090/document.
Full textIn the works of Patrick Modiano, the incoherent memorys which are to be accompanied by the dysfunction is an important theme. The concept of the imperfect memory could develop after the experiencing psychotrauma in youth and childhood. To find the hidden truth, the narrators search for indications in the parts of the story memorized in a retrospective way. The separation between « I narrate » and « I narrated » is always present. It is the source of chronology particular to the works of Modiano. The elasticity of the time between both of them, or an order and a disorder of chronology between the events coexist, while each story is not uniform in speed of development. It seemed that the particular method of narration could represent an intermittent memory. In our thesis, we study the mechanism of memory tied in the plotline proper to the works of Modiano, throught the narratological approach. More than one plotline prevents making a clear distinction between plot-lines and sub plot-lines. The insertions comments of the narrator who considers an event of past time produce an memory. At the end of our thesis, we try to emphasize his poetry and theme preference with a tragic memory in the youth and with the worthlessness of birth that reveal itself inside the memory
CARVALHO, ILANA GOLDFELD. "PATRICK MODIANO: THE CARTOGRAPHY OF AN AUTHOR, THE WRITING OF A CITY." PONTIFÍCIA UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA DO RIO DE JANEIRO, 2018. http://www.maxwell.vrac.puc-rio.br/Busca_etds.php?strSecao=resultado&nrSeq=34844@1.
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Patrick Modiano: A cartografia de um autor, a escrita de uma cidade é uma investigação do papel que a memória e o espaço físico da cidade desempenham na escrita de Patrick Modiano, em particular no livro Para você não se perder no bairro (lançado no Brasil em 2015 e na França como Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier, em 2014). O projeto literário do escritor francês vencedor do Prêmio Nobel de Literatura de 2014 é marcado pela existência de elementos autobiográficos e é considerado por muitos críticos como autoficção. O presente estudo procura compreender quais características temáticas, linguísticas e narrativas são típicas de sua escrita e, para tanto, também faz uso de entrevistas concedidas pelo autor. Analisa, em seguida, as diferentes concepções de memória que podem ser relacionadas ao escritor e como estas se manifestam em seus textos. A pesquisa mostra como o esquecimento ocupa lugar de destaque em Para você não se perder no bairro e a relação entre o processo de rememoração do protagonista e Paris, notando, assim, como o espaço pode ser visto como um repositório da memória. Deste modo, o presente trabalho investiga como Modiano traça um mapa de experiência em sua obra, elaborando uma cartografia afetiva a partir de restos do passado.
Patrick Modiano: The cartography of an author, the writing of a city is an investigation on the role the memory and the city s physical space play in the writing of Patrick Modiano, especially in the book So You Don t Get Lost in the Neighborhood (published in 2015 in Brazil under the name Para você não se perder no bairro and originally in France in 2014 as Pour que tu ne te perdes pas dans le quartier). The 2014 Nobel Prize winner in Literature s literary project is marked by the existence of autobiographical elements and is considered by many critics as autofiction. The present study tries to understand which thematic, linguistic and narrative traits are characteristic of his writing and also uses interviews given by the author to achieve so. It then analyses the different conceptions of memory that can be associated to the author and how these may appear on his texts. The research shows how forgetfulness occupies a prominent place in So You Don t Get Lost in the Neighborhood and the link between the protagonist s process of remembering and Paris, therefore observing how the space may be seen as a repository for memory. Thus, the present work investigates how Modiano draws a map of experience in his books, creating an emotional cartography from remnants of the past.
Kim, Myoung-Sook. "Imaginaire et espaces urbains : Georges Perec, Patrick Modiano et Kim Sung-ok." Paris 3, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007PA030093.
Full textOur study aims to elucidate the relation between collective memory and personal memory through the literary analysis of two French writers, George Perec and Patrick Modiano, and of a Korean writer, Kim Sung-ok. Thus we emphasize the creation of ‘a new historico-literal space’, which is distinct from the historical novel. These authors also show a new way with the autobiography, a genre which rests exclusively on a personal history. According to them, memory is closely related to places. Our writers stick to urban spaces to fight against Time, destructive force which generates the lapse of memory and death. The relation between places and memory constitutes well our writers’ imagination. Our research consists of ‘deciphering’ these places, themselves ‘encryptés’ by le je
Hashemi, Elaheh Sadat. "Écrire l’histoire : savoir et fiction chez Patrick Modiano et Amir Hassan Cheheltan." Thesis, Bourgogne Franche-Comté, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018UBFCC012/document.
Full textAdapting Ivan Jablonka’s theories on the relationship of history and literature, and Carlo Ginzburg's notion of “microhistory”, this work aims at studying how two contemporary writers from different cultural and geographical spheres—the French author, Patrick Modiano and the Iranian novelist, Amir Hassan Cheheltan—set about writing history, in the historiographic sense of the term. With a particular focus on Modiano’s La Place de l'Étoile (Place de l'étoile, 1968), The Night Watch (La Ronde de nuit, 1969), Ring Roads (Les Boulevards de ceinture, 1972) and Dora Bruder (1997) and the novels The mirror room (Talar-e aineh, 1990), Mandragora (Mehr-e giah, 1998), Tehran, city without sky (Tehran, shahr-e bi asseman, 2001) and Iranian Dawn (Sepidedam-e irani, 2005) by Cheheltan, this study demonstrates that, despite the omnipresence of history in these texts, none of them actually respect the criteria of the traditional historical novel genre. Rather, it will be suggested, they approach something akin to social-science literature; that is, their narratives endeavor to tell the truth about the world without explicitly representing or re-creating great historical events or portraying great historical figures. Instead, as “Novel-Histories”, these works invite the reader to think about the nature and status of official History. As for Dora Bruder, it can be viewed as “text-search” or a “micro-historical inquiry”; but unlike its more traditional counterparts Modiano’s quest never offers a definitive answer. A thematic analysis will illustrate that the two authors are particularly interested in writing about problematic or marginalized figures in the two metropolises that feature in their work—Paris (Modiano) and Tehran (Cheheltan)—, geographical spaces which are also the theater of history. Finally, the formal and aesthetic aspects of the two works will be explored, with a view to demonstrating their literary and artistic diversity. So, it is a question of comparing how both authors engage with history from a thematic, formal, aesthetic but also epistemic perspective and analyzing the main modes by which history is inscribed in their works
Awad, Aziza Ibrahim Sayed. "Parcours géographiques au travers de quelques oeuvres romanesques de Patrick Modiano : une géographie-littéraire." Thesis, Bordeaux 3, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016BOR30008.
Full textParis occupies a central place in the Patrick Modiano of novels. It's his hometown, the city of his youth and one where he spent most of his life. He remained hopelessly fascinated by it. Several novels have essential spatial framework for streets, boulevards and Parisian districts. The proper name of the French capital is the most cited in all modianiens texts. As heterogeneous as is the spatial context, he mentioned, in most stories, the Paris Maps. Modiano how he apprehends the city ? How is it described in his stories? Modiano he borrows the look of a Paris, a city that knows better than anyone that space or that of a visitor, a smuggler ? Paris is it simply a space where the protagonist lives and it describes or is there another type of representation of the city in the texts of the novelist ? How real space he turns into representation ? We believe that a geographic research is needed regarding Patrick Modiano of novels. The space contains modianien excellence by a geographical dimension that jumps to the first reading of his novels. The space, in Modiano, is first and foremost real. The French capital is actually designed by this writer, with its boulevards, intersections, avenues and neighborhoods. But this real place emerges another purely imaginary topography
Khalifa, Samuel. "Le traitement symbolique et poétique de Paris dans l'oeuvre romanesque de Patrick Modiano." Paris 3, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002PA030013.
Full textThe evocation of Parisian locations in Modiano's work aims not only to structure a concise, economic narrative style, but serves also as a distinctive melting-pot for speculative associations about the past and the evolution of a sense of memory. In addition, the perception of the capital weaves a complex web, sometimes problematic, between the Romanesque forms of urban space (decoration, trace, circulatory systems, architectural object, urban subject) and the primary narrative project: memory. A focal point of mental as of pedestrian wanderings, the Paris of Modiano's work deploys a symbolism and poeticisation of the memorable. Through its depiction as at times evanescent and lugubrious, sometimes picturesque and exotic, the capital gives rise to a fantasy-infused chronicle of a fragmentary memory. Paris, in Modianos' world, is ultimately intimately connected to the problem of identity, as expressed throughout the novels in terms of the aspect of Jewish being. This is not solely symbolic but also reflects a historic reality and attempts to express the experience of the unsayable. .
Radhi, Sattar Jabbar. "La quête identitaire chez les personnages romanesques de Patrick Modiano : entre fiction et histoire." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015LYO20066/document.
Full textThis thesis’ aim is to expose the meaning and evolution of a search for identity which stems from an original loss, or the absence of all things (absence of life) which provokes an urgent need to find oneself. This paradoxical quest initiates a movement that is both centripetal and centrifugal. That movement is apparent through the desire of building an identity as well as through the will to permanently erase all identity. The study draws and dwells upon a dialectical logic which shapes the conscience of the self throughout a long fictional initiation. While analysing the roots of that identity tension from a historical standpoint, we aim at answering the following question: to what extent identity proves unattainable in Modiano’s first trilogy ? Since the thesis explores a search for identity torn between fiction and history, we ask if the question of identity as posed by the author points to conflictual and problematic identity on scientific grounds.We built our study around the turbulent journey of narrators situated in a fictional and threatening context where components of an all-Parisian fictional geography come together. In front of history’s ambiguities and memory’s disorders, writing proves the only means capable of giving Modiano’s narrators a writer’s identity, thus enabling them to fight annihilation and non-existence. Though narrators do not succeed in finding themselves through writing and through other people’s memory, they sometimes manage to get closer to their identity through asymptotic writing which warrants somewhat identity. From the fragmentary nature of the texts, we explore the evolution of narrators. The latter reflect the author’s identity which progressively takes shape as they go back in time. Last, it can be said that the protagonist manages to get out of the disorderly times, which for a long period seemed inevitable, and thus attains a greater lucidity in his literary search for identity
Boutin, Frédéric. "Du devenir-écrivain du narrateur modianien au devenir-archives du roman Dora Bruder /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, 2000. http://theses.uqac.ca.
Full textCant, Sarah Elizabeth. "Paper authors : self-referentiality and the works of Annie Ernaux, Patrick Modiano, and Daniel Pennac." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2000. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.327374.
Full textDainese, Francesca. "À chacun sa cicatrice ˸ écritures de l'identité chez Romain Gary, Georges Perec et Patrick Modiano." Electronic Thesis or Diss., Paris 3, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019PA030059.
Full textThis thesis aims to explore the theme of identity in the works of three French authors of Jewish origin, whose literary activity extends from the 1960s to the present day: Romain Gary, Georges Perec and Patrick Modiano. The three writers deal differently with the trauma of the Holocaust as a consequence of their different historical experiences: Gary was a hero of the Resistance, Perec survived the Holocaust as a Hidden Child and Modiano was the son of a Jewish collaborator. The theme of the Holocaust recurs in their works as a tormented and intimate interrogation to their origins. The three authors share the experience of being lost and researching into history. The difficult transmission of the memory of the past is accompanied by a problematic re-appropriation of the present. In this thesis, in accordance with Paul Ricœur, identity is conceived as a narrative that reconstructs and deconstructs the self, with no ultimate and clear definition of what it really is. Starting from Freud and the Trauma Studies, I study the relationship between identity and memory, focusing particularly on the principle of repetition as the traumatic result of the autobiographical and historical experiences of the three authors. In the second part of the thesis, following Foucault's studies on the “author-function”, I analyze how the search for personal identity is combined with and nurtured by the creation of an authorial posture and role, in reference to literary corpus of the three authors. In the third part, repetition is analyzed as an instrument of introjection of otherness, therefore considering each writer as an intertext of pre-existing words by other authors. Can rewriting and repetition be ‘‘form-sense’’ (H. Meschonnic) of the search for identity? Yes, provided that they are performed as aesthetic variations on a leading autobiographical theme
Obergöker, Timo. "Ecritures du non-lieu : topographies d'une impossible quête identitaire : Georges Perec, Romain Gary, Patrick Modiano." Nancy 2, 2003. http://www.theses.fr/2003NAN21006.
Full textJulien, Aurélie. "Errance identitaire, errance scripturale : Patrick Modiano, W. G. Sebald, Fred Wander et la littérature de l'après." Thesis, Rennes 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016REN20036/document.
Full textThe French writer Patrick Modiano (1945-), the German writer W.G. Sebald (1944-2001) and the Austrian writer Fred Wander (1917-2006) consider the relationship between errance and literature after 1945: They are moved by the absence of the witnesses and the disparition of the past after World War II. Their books are haunted by memory lapses and identity disorder and they present a lot of trips accross worlds ; the characters of Modiano, Sebald and Wander are in exile or in transit, far away from their Heimat, and there are searching for missing peaces of their identity. The memory gaps and errors, the difficulty of being, the uncertainties and the dialogues with the out of text world (the space outside the text, the past History, the recall, the reader, the intertextuality and intermediality) compose the matter of writing. The books by the three writers, Honeymoon and Dora Bruder by Modiano, The Emigrants and Austerlitz by Sebald, Hôtel Baalbek and Das gute Leben by Wander, are wandering between fiction and reality and not corresponding the literary norms: are they novels,Bildungsromane, investigation reports, memoirs, or (auto)biographies? These hybrid and multi-level narratives combine voices, confuse the issue, collect the individual, collective and cultural memory and keep the meaning and the direction of the texts, so the narrative transmission, in suspense. The trope of errance leads also to the exploration of the identity and the memory of the texts themselves and the (re)consideration of the role of the reader after 1945
Wiener, Elise. "Trace d'existence et énigme de la présence : du photographique à l'oeuvre dans l'écriture de Patrick Modiano." Thesis, Paris, EHESS, 2020. http://www.theses.fr/2020EHES0018.
Full textPhotography is a major topic in Patrick Modiano’s writing, it mingles together presence and absence, inscription and withdrawal, Being and non-Being. In many of his novels, photographs are documents that help the character to evolve in his quest to find the tracks of a missing relative or a forgotten memory. Futhermore, photography is a conceptual model in the narrative : the author examines the past and explores reality in a way that has a lot to do with the paradoxal characteristics that defines photography. The narrative construction does neither bring back the past nor those who disappeared, but instead builds up a poetic of memory that brings up the context of his disappearance. Digging for fragments and traces of anonymous persons, Modiano's narrative gives them back their subjectivity and their dignity, constructing thus a philosophical thought on existence. The story progresses recollecting disparate details build up together to enlight dust of stars that shimmers from the dark matter of the memory
Young, Morag Briony Eileen. "Shifting selves : identity quests and innovation in the novels of Marguerite Duras, Patrick Modiano, and Marie Darrieussecq." Thesis, Oxford Brookes University, 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.444299.
Full textDevine, Jenny. "'Lignes de fuite vers L'Horizon' : reading a Nietzschean narrative of liberation in the writings of Patrick Modiano." Thesis, Royal Holloway, University of London, 2011. http://repository.royalholloway.ac.uk/items/59ef754f-8da8-652e-2b50-a1a0209dfd22/10/.
Full textLombard, Christo. "Le rôle de la femme disparue dans deux oeuvres de Patrick Modiano : Voyage de noces et Dora Bruder." Diss., University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/65571.
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Lin, Tai-Yin. "Les romans de Modiano : ressassements, variations, ruptures." Thesis, Lyon 2, 2011. http://www.theses.fr/2011LYO20017.
Full textFrom La Place de l’Etoile to L’Horizon, can we recognize the same "signature" of Modiano ? He marked his début with the first novel by a flamboyant character (the author deems later as "a sort of pamphlet"), then the mannerism yield to a (neo) classicism. A break would be intervened in the writing of Modiano. But when does this break occur ? It is certain that from the second novel, La Ronde de nuit, the tone has changed. However, La Place de l’Etoile with La Ronde de nuit and Les Boulevards de ceinture forms the first trilogy, focusing on the German occupation of Paris : this character invites us to examine the continuity and discontinuity in the fictive writing of Modiano. Due to the rehashes and variations, the style of writer has certain strikings features that can be easily identified. There is no doubt, in reading retrospectively all the novels of Modiano, the aberrant nature of La Place de l’Etoile is strident . However, if we abstracte his appearance delirious, isn’t it possible to notice that there exist already several signs of forerunners in the writing of Modiano ? This present research starts from a detailed study of La Place de l’Etoile to examine the “petite musique” of Modiano. We confront this novel with his later works, by following the chronology of his creation, in expectation to identify in his writing the elements of rehashes, variations and breaks
Pawlowicz, Julia Magdalena. "S'écrire à travers la mémoire de la Shoah, cinquante ans après : le cas de Patrick Modiano ; suivi de, Les trois âges de Zofia." Thesis, McGill University, 2005. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=98570.
Full textBy its density and its specificity, Patrick Modiano's work answers these difficult questions. In a confrontation with collective history, which is at once strange and familiar to them, his narrators explore writing in order to find the right way to define the parametres and, more significantly, the limits of their identity. Their integrity allows them to transform their weaknesses into strengths: by accepting the distance between himself, the Shoah, and collective history, Modiano situates himself with respect to one of the most important events of the twentieth century.
Garvey, Brenda. "The dynamics of time and space in recent French fiction : selected works by Annie Ernaux, Patrick Modiano, Jean Echenoz and Marie Darrieussecq." Thesis, University of Chester, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/10034/621585.
Full textMorand-Dupuis, Marie-Hélène. "L'ekphrasis photographique et le rapport au biographique chez Annie Ernaux et Patrick Modiano : le cas d'Une femme et de Chien de printemps." Master's thesis, Université Laval, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11794/28082.
Full textLee, Kwang-Sun. "Coupure et création des personnages dans les romans modernes (XXe siècle)." Paris 8, 2002. https://octaviana.fr/document/181447592#?c=0&m=0&s=0&cv=0.
Full textWilson, Laurie Christine. "Representation of the années noires and the evolution of memory in postwar French literature /." view abstract or download file of text, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/uoregon/fullcit?p3035578.
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Gregory-Guider, Christopher Calvin. "Autobiogeography and the art of peripatetic memorialization in works by W.G. Sebald, Patrick Modiano, Iain Sinclair, Jonathan Raban, and William Least Heat-Moon." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.426336.
Full textHedström, Isabell. "Secrets de famille : Une étude des recherches de l’identité dans L’Oiseau des originesde Max Gallo et dans Le Testament français d’Andreï Makine." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Franska, 2020. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-34520.
Full textThis study proposes an attempt to a psychoanalytical reading of some parts of the two novels L’Oiseau des origines (Gallo, 1974) and Le Testament français (Makine, 1995), hoping to unveil some hidden issues. The novels recount the lives of two young men, Thomas and Aliocha, and their respective search for identity. The framework of family secrets offers an appreciation of the role played by the family background on the formation of their charactersThe first hypothesis is that the two young men’s identity search is marked by exaggeration or even fabrication since they grew up in family environments where others hid their true origins from them. That hypothesis was not confirmed. The second hypothesis is that they, influenced by the existence of family secrets, have developed a secretive and concealed character with problems to distinguish real life from dreams. That hypothesis was partly confirmed. The study proved that they have developed a secretive character with a predilection to create further secrets. However, only Thomas was found to have problems to distinguish real life from dreams.
Efone, Ekemi Shella. "La question de l'originalité dans le roman contemporain : Identification des caractéristiques stylistiques dans trois oeuvres : La Place d'Annie Ernaux, Lac de Jean Echenoz, La Place de l'étoile de Patrick Modiano." Thesis, Tours, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015TOUR2015.
Full textThe subject of originality in the contemporary novel: identification of stylistics caracteristics in the three works of Annie Ernaux, Jean Echenoz and Patrick Modiano. This work consists in a relevant analysis of the stylistic features of the French novel these days. This work is based upon three approaches whose the first consist in identifying the relation of influence and intertextuality which link the texts of ours authors with the texts of their predecessors. The novel takes its roots in the literary heritage, and then it transforms itself progressively through the writing act. We have seen that Annie Ernaux, Jean Echenoz and Patrick Modiano are atypical authors who have been able to extract from the literary heritage its very substance in order to produce a masterpiece. In addition, we have conducted an analytical study of the writing methods used by each one of these authors