The novel “Sleeping Memories” - as usual by Patrick Modiano (Nobel Prize 2014) - takes place in the neighborhoods of Paris, its cafés, its alleys and its cinemas. The novel follows a young man’s relationship with several women during his childhood and youth, from high school until the age of twenty-five. The hero’s memories overlap with his present, and the mother occupies center stage in those memories. She stands out in Hero mind characters
And names, then suddenly disappear.. He forgets them and she forgets him.
The hero clings to trying to mend that foggy memory of places and people by writing down the names of places, people, and addresses, and walking according to maps, while the hero suffers from a feeling of abandonment and denial, trying to awaken those dormant memories. As for Paris, the womb of the story, it flooded the narrator with the desire to escape and a constant sense of danger
Patrick Modiano is a famous French novelist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2014, and before that he won the most prestigious French literary awards, including
Grand Prix of the French Academy for Novel in 1972, and a prize
Goncourt in 1978.
Modiano was born in 1945 and has written more than twenty novels. He published his first novel, Star Square, when he was twenty-three. It is considered
"Dora Brodet" is his most famous and best-selling book.
