5/13/2023 0 Comments Private novelist nell zink![]() “The Black Notebook” concerns a man revisiting a troubled love affair he had in Paris in the wake of the Algerian War of Independence, 50 years ago it promises, in Modiano’s typical fashion, to reveal the truth about what happened, using a challenging, satisfying obliqueness. Modiano tends to favor nontraditional narratives - in a 2015 New York Times profile of the writer, Rachel Donadio commented that his “books are like mystery novels, in which the search for information only creates more mysteries” - but his work is worth unraveling. Next on the market is his 2012 novella, “The Black Notebook,” translated by Mark Polizzotti. Lately, a flood of new translations of his work has become available in the United States. ![]() The tale would sound relentlessly painful were it not for the tease of some fairylike brightness (rooted, like all fairy tales, in grimness).īefore Modiano won the 2014 Nobel Prize in literature, his work wasn’t well known in the English language. “Little Nothing” follows Pavla, a beautiful girl born a dwarf, through her isolated childhood and her fraught, persecuted adulthood. ![]() The three highly acclaimed previous novels by filmmaker-turned-novelist Silver have been rooted in her home state of California, making her choice of setting for “Little Nothing” - “an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century,” according to her publishers - an intriguing leap. ![]()
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