Books 2014: Suspended Sentences
Patrick Modiano is a French author who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014, which is the reason I picked up one of his books. Suspended Sentences is a collection of three separate novellas/long short stories (originally written in the late 80s/early 90s), though sometimes they seem connected. The titles are:
Afterimage (Chien de printemps) (1993)
Suspended sentences (Remise de peine)(1988)
Flowers of ruin (Fleurs de ruine) (1991)
The books is translated by Mark Polizzotti, and since I have no chance of comparing it to the original, I don't know if this is a good translation or not. Personally, I didn't like it much. I found both the style of writing and the stories themselves slightly boring, and was happy when I reached the last page. But then, I've had that feeling before with Nobel Prize winners.(So it might just be me ...) But again - perhaps the translation didn't manage to express the true greatness of Modiano's writing?
Afterimage (Chien de printemps) (1993)
Suspended sentences (Remise de peine)(1988)
Flowers of ruin (Fleurs de ruine) (1991)
The books is translated by Mark Polizzotti, and since I have no chance of comparing it to the original, I don't know if this is a good translation or not. Personally, I didn't like it much. I found both the style of writing and the stories themselves slightly boring, and was happy when I reached the last page. But then, I've had that feeling before with Nobel Prize winners.(So it might just be me ...) But again - perhaps the translation didn't manage to express the true greatness of Modiano's writing?
Modiano, Patrick (2014). Suspended Sentences: Three Novellas. New Haven & London: Yale. Kindle edition.
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