„Je obtížné stát se spisovatelem jako mladý.“
Zdroj: https://otavinka.blogspot.com/2020/07/citat-dne-30-7.html
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Patrick Modiano
Datum narození: 30. červenec 1945
Další jména: پاتریک مودیانو, Πατρίκ Μοντιανό
Patrick Modiano je francouzský spisovatel a nositel Nobelovy ceny za literaturu v roce 2014. V roce 1978 získal Goncourtovu cenu za román Ulice temných krámků a roku 2012 Rakouskou státní cenu za evropskou literaturu.
Citáty Patrick Modiano
„Nikdy jsem neuvažoval, že bych mohl dělat něco jiného. Neměl jsem žádný diplom, žádnou jasnou kariéru. Je však obtížné stát se spisovatelem jako mladý. Raději nečtu své rané knihy. Ne kvůli tomu, že by se mi nelíbily, nepoznávám se v nich. Je to něco jako když se starý herec dívá na své bývalé postavy.“
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]
„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.“
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.
„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.“
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.
„She committed suicide…
"Why?"
"She often told me, she was frightened of getting old."“
— Patrick Modiano, kniha Missing Person
Missing Person (1978 )
„Hutte, for instance, used to quote the case of a fellow he called "the beach man ". This man had spent forty years of his life on beaches or by the sides of swimming pools, chatting pleasantly with summer visitors and rich idlers. He is to be seen, in his bathing costume, in the corners and backgrounds of holiday snaps, among groups of happy people, but no one knew his name and why he was there. And no one noticed when one day he vanished from the photographs. I did not dare tell Hutte, but I felt that " the beach man " was myself. Though it would not surprised him if I had confessed it. Hutte was always saying that, in the end, we we're all " beach men " and that the sand keeps the traces of our footsteps only a few moments "“
— Patrick Modiano, kniha Missing Person
Missing Person (1978 )
„We passed the Gardens and turned down Avenue de New York. There, under the embankment trees, I had the unpleasant sensation that I was dreaming. I had already lived my life and was just a ghost hovering in the tepid air of Saturday evening. Why try to renew ties which had been broken and look for paths that had been blocked off long ago? And the plump, moustachioed little man, walking beside me, hardly seemed real.“
— Patrick Modiano, kniha Missing Person
Missing Person (1978 )
„When you are young, you neglect certain details that might become precious later.“
p 53
After the Circus (1992) English translation 2015
„Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.“
Suspended Sentences (1993)
