Our Beginnings is a play by Patrick Modiano, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014. In Modiano's distinctive style, the play reflects issues of identity, memory, and the search for the self as he delves into the details of complex human relationships and explores the fragility of beginnings that shape the human face in the face of the world.
Through its characters, the play offers a profound meditation on the internal conflicts that individuals live in the prime of their lives, between their dreams and hopes on the one hand, and their social and psychological reality on the other.
The play is characterized by poetic language and a calm rhythm that emphasizes Modiano's ability to paint vivid human scenes that touch on issues of alienation and the search for belonging. It is likely that the work reflects part of Modiano's personal experiences, as is the case in many of his works that deal with the loss of the individual and his search for the meaning of his existence in a complex world.
