Patrick Modiano citáty

Originál: (sk) Nikdy som neuvažoval, že by som mohol robiť niečo iné. Nemal som žiadny diplom, žiadnu jasnú kariéru. Je však ťažké stať sa spisovateľom ako mladý. Radšej nečítam svoje rané knihy. Nie kvôli tomu, že by sa mi nepáčili, nespoznávam sa v nich. Je to niečo ako keď sa starý herec pozerá na svoje bývalé postavy.
Zdroj: [Nobelovu cenu za literatúru má Francúz Patrick Modiano, kultura.sme.sk, 2014-10-09, 2014-11-07, http://kultura.sme.sk/c/7429408/nobelovu-cenu-za-literaturu-ma-francuz-patrick-modiano.html]

P 137
The Search Warrant (2000)
Kontext: I shall never know how she spent her days, where she hid, in whose company she passed the winter months of her first escape, or the few weeks of spring when she escaped for the second time. That is her secret. A poor and precious secret which not even the executioners the decrees, the occupying authorities, the Depot, the barracks, the camps, history, time – everything that corrupts and destroys you- have been able to take away from her.

Zdroj: Honey Moon (1990), p. 120

Zdroj: The Search Warrant (2000), p. 43
Kontext: Then again, the term “Jew” meant nothing to the fourteen-year-old Dora. When it came down to it, what did people understand by the term “Jew”? For himself, he never gave it a thought. He was used to being put into this or that category by the authorities. Unskilled labourer. Ex –Austrian. French legionnaire. Non- suspect. Ex-serviceman 100% disabled. Foreign statute labourer. Jew.

Suspended Sentences (1993)

Suspended Sentences (1993)

p 53
After the Circus (1992) English translation 2015

Missing Person (1978 )

Zdroj: Honey Moon (1990), p. 57

P 54
The Search Warrant (2000)

P 86
The Search Warrant (2000)

From Nobel Lecture (2014)

P 104
The Search Warrant (2000)

From Nobel Lecture (2014)

Zdroj: The Search Warrant (2000), pp. 47-48

Missing Person (1978 )

Suspended Sentences (1993)

From Nobel Lecture (2014)

116
Out Of The Dark (1995)