{"id":6175,"date":"2026-01-26T22:28:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T22:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=6175"},"modified":"2026-05-13T16:12:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T16:12:19","slug":"we-live-at-the-mercy-of-certain-silences-patrick-modiano","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/?p=6175","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI was happy when I walked the streets of Paris by myself.\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\u00a9 Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: A. Mahmoud<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday, 18 February, 2026, Another Look will present Nobel prizewinning Patrick Modiano\u2019s 2007 novella, In the Caf\u00e9 of Lost Youth<\/a> <\/em>(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\u2019s 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. (You will remember Rush from our 2016 event on Joseph Conrad\u2019s <\/a>The Shadow-Line: A Confession<\/a><\/u>.<\/em>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Nobel announcement recognized Modiano\u2019s \u201cconsistent exploration of memory and the elusive nature of personal history, often set against the backdrop of occupied Paris.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has been praised for his \u201csubtle, clear style and his ability to bring anonymous lives to light, making him a modern-day Proust in the eyes of some.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

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According to World Literature Today, <\/em>\u201cModiano\u2019s fictional world is not postapocalyptic, like the fictional worlds of Beckett, but postrelational . . . a world where familiar patterns, whether placed in memory, neighborhoods, or situations, are dispersed and left to languish on the wind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, Another Look has done a Q&A interview with Modiano\u2019s translator, Chris Clarke. You can read: \u201cNo one saw the Nobel coming\u201d: A Q&A with Modiano\u2019s translator<\/a><\/u><\/strong> on the Another Look website.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can register for the event on the link below \u2013 and please share the link (and the poster and event square we’ve attached) with your friends:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bonus reading: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobel lecture:
https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/literature\/2014\/modiano\/lecture\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nobel Award speech:
https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/literature\/2014\/ceremony-speech\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Caf\u00e9 of Lost Youth <\/em>is on order at Kepler’s and should arrive shortly. Call 650-324-4321 to reserve a copy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a9 Nobel Prize Outreach. Photo: A. Mahmoud On Wednesday, 18 February, 2026, Another Look will present Nobel prizewinning Patrick Modiano\u2019s 2007 novella, In the Caf\u00e9 of Lost Youth (New York Review Books). The event will take place, as always, at 7 p.m. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[89,87,51,88,43],"class_list":["post-6175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chloe-edmondson","tag-patrick-modiano","tag-robert-pogue-harrison","tag-rush-rehm","tag-tobias-wolff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6175\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anotherlook.stanford.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}