La place de l'etoile
The narrator, Rafael Šlemilovič, is an unreal character through whose encounters thousands of lives and destinies intertwine. He is a Jew who meets all sorts of characters and as he goes from place to place in frenetic storytelling, he changes and from victim becomes everything he might be - from a Nazi collaborator to a lost soul who ends up on Freud's couch.
Some of the themes in the novel are the relationship with his father, the period of World War II, the Holocaust, the French collaboration with the Nazis, the resistance movement, and so on.
The hero of the novel has an inexhaustible art of imagination with which he is able to transform the lived into a rich world of resonant experiences and impressions.
Patrick Modiano is a French novelist born in 1945. He is the winner of the Grand Prize of the French Academy, the Goncourt Prize for this novel (Rue des boutiques obscures) and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014.
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