{"id":6162,"date":"2025-12-11T22:43:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T22:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=6162"},"modified":"2026-05-21T02:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T02:16:55","slug":"patrick-modianos-in-the-cafe-of-lost-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=6162","title":{"rendered":"Patrick Modiano’s “In the Caf\u00e9 of Lost Youth”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Wednesday, 18 February, 2026, Another Look will present Nobel prizewinning Patrick Modiano’s 2007 novella, In the Caf\u00e9 of Lost Youth<\/a> <\/em><\/span>(New York Review Books). The event will take place, as always, at 7 p.m. at Levinthal Hall, 424 Santa Teresa Street on the Stanford campus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Panelists will include Stanford Prof. Robert Pogue Harrison<\/a><\/u><\/strong>, author, director of Another Look, host of the radio talk show and podcast series Entitled Opinions<\/em>, and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books,<\/em> and Stanford Prof. Tobias Wolff<\/a><\/u><\/strong>, one of America\u2019s leading writers and the founding director of Another Look, as well as a recipient of the National Medal of Arts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

They will be joined by Chloe Edmondson<\/a><\/u><\/strong>, a lecturer in Stanford’s Department of French and Italian. She is the France-Stanford Center Fellow for the Roxane Debuisson Collection on Paris History. You will remember her from our event Madame de LaFayette\u2019s The Princesse de Cl\u00e8ves<\/em> in 2019. Actor, director, classicist, Stanford Prof. Rush Rehm<\/span><\/a>, <\/strong>will round out the panel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nobel announcement recognized Modiano’s “consistent exploration of memory and the elusive nature of personal history, often set against the backdrop of occupied Paris.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has been praised for his “subtle, clear style and his ability to bring anonymous lives to light, making him a modern-day Proust in the eyes of some.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Register on the link below:

https:\/\/stanford.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_-03yUMbsSWWwJdijPIQg3w<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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