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In 1988 Patrick Modiano stumbled across an ad between the stock market report and a story of a school visit to Marechal Petain in the personal columns of Paris Soir from December 31, 1941: "We are looking for a young girl, Dora Bruder, 15 years old, five feet tall, round face, gray-brown eyes, gray sportscoat, burgundy pullover, navy blue hat and skirt, brown athletic shoes. Send all information to Mr. and Mrs. Bruder, 41, Boulevard Ornano, Paris."
Placed by the parents of a 15-year-old Jewish girl who had run away from her convent school just before New Year's Eve, this ad set Modiano on a quest to find out everything he could about Dora Bruder and why she ran away from the Catholic boarding school that had been hiding her. He found only one other official mention of her name: on a list of Jews deported from Paris to Auschwitz in September 1942.
With no knowledge of Dora Bruder aside from these two records of disappearances, Modiano continued to dig for fragments from Dora's past. What little he found in official records or through remaining family members, Modiano transforms into a meditation on the immense losses of the period--lost people, lost stories, and lost history. As he tries to find connections to Dora, Modiano delivers a moving account of the ten-year investigation that took him back to the sights and sounds of Paris under the Occupation and the paranoia of the Petain regime. In his efforts to exhume her from the past, Modiano realizes that he must come to terms with the specters of his own troubled adolescence. The result is a montage of creative and historical material that unfolds as a moving rumination on loss.
- Sales Rank: #219218 in Books
- Brand: Brand: FOLIO
- Published on: 1999-04-01
- Original language: French
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.90" h x .50" w x 4.30" l, .35 pounds
- Binding: Mass Market Paperback
- 144 pages
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Review
"An unforgettable eulogy to a previously unknown Holocaust victim."--"Book Magazine
Language Notes
Text: French
About the Author
Patrick Modiano is one of the most celebrated French novelists of his generation. He has collaborated with Louis Malle on the film "Lacombe Lucien" and has written over fifteen novels.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
The Known and the Unknown
By Roger Brunyate
I really wanted to quote the final paragraph of Modiano's novel, which is infinitely more moving in its simplicity than anything that comes before. But I will desist, and leave it for the reader to discover -- not because it gives away secrets, but because it does the opposite, preserving a secret for all time. It is the one gift he can offer to the tragic subject of his writing, a teenage Jewish girl living in Paris at the time of the German Occupation.
So failing that, let me come upon it obliquely, as Modiano himself does. Near the beginning of his book, the author recalls visiting the hospital of the Salp�tri�re in search of his ailing father, whom he had not seen for many years:
"I remember having wandered for hours through the immensity of this vast hospital, looking for him. I went into ancient buildings, passed through wards lined with beds, and questioned nurses who gave me contradictory information. I ended almost doubting my father's very existence as I walked back and forth in front of that majestic church and those unreal buildings, unchanged since the 18th century. They made me think of Manon Lescaut and the time when they served as a prison for prostitutes, under the sinister name of General Hospital, before they were deported to Louisiana. I must have pounded those paved courtyards until dusk. I never saw my father again." [translation mine]
This is paragraph has nothing to do with Modiano's main subject, which is to trace the last months of this girl before her eventual capture. And yet it has everything to do with his motivation and method. It could be said that his entire oeuvre has to do with the search for his father and his failure to find him -- or at least to understand how he could have survived the Occupation as a Jew, unless as a black-marketeer and collaborator with the Germans. His method of inserting himself into the settings of his story, his precise accumulation of detail, his command of the parallels with history and literature, make him into an archaeologist of shame, very much in the manner of WG Sebald, though with documents in place of photographs. The one exception is the winter scene on the cover which sums up the desolate atmosphere of the book in a single shot.*
Like his Prix Goncourt novel, RUE DES BOUTIQUES OBSCURES, but unlike his recently translated trilogy SUSPENDED SENTENCES, I read this in French, and feel it was absolutely essential to do so. Not for Modiano's style, which is direct rather than literary in tone, but the number of original documents he uncovers, whose untranslatable bureaucratic language treats the management of horror as a day's normal business. Modiano's trigger is a mention in a 1941 newspaper that a 15-year-old schoolgirl named Dora Bruder has disappeared. The author knows the area in which her family lived, and revisits the once-familiar streets to soak in the atmosphere. I read with Google Maps zoomed in to various areas of Paris, walking vicariously through the unfamiliar quarters, imagining how they must have felt in 1941. What intrigues him is that Dora's disappearance does not coincide with the round-ups of French Jews, which did not begin until later the following year. So why did she vanish?
Indefatigably, he looks through records, searching for information. And remarkably, he finds a lot. Unlike the other four Modiano books I have read, which work obliquely by mystery and suggestion, this one is almost full-frontal. There is no question what ultimately happened to Dora Bruder, and the details make painful reading. Fact after fact after fact, not revealed in order, but squeezing Dora's life between them as in a slowly closing trap. Soon, there are no secrets left. Except one -- and that is the stroke of poetry that turns this painstaking history into a work of art.
[*I will give more information on this and a couple of other matters in the comments.]
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
"Vous aimeriez bien comprendre pourquoi."
By Thomas F. Dillingham
I had not heard of, nor read the work of, Patrick Modiano before the announcement of his Nobel Prize for Literature. Curiosity ensued. My first encounter has been with this curious book (both an odd work and one that explores deeply the nature of human curiosity), a cross between novella and brief, focused memoir. The voice of the narrator lets us know early that a determined search for information about the fate of a young woman, Dora Bruder, identified as being "missing" from her school in Paris, according to a notice posted by her parents in Paris-Soir on December 31, 1941 is to follow. Indeed, the narrative persists in a search through printed records, possible eyewitness sources and whatever else may reveal or bring to light the situation and circumstances of Dora's life after her flight from her school. Early in the work, the narrator states: "Il faut longtemps pour que resurgisse a la lumiere ce qui a ete efface. Des traces subsistent dans des registres et l'on ignore ou ils sont caches et quels gardiens veillent sur eux te si ces gardiens consentiront a vous les montrer. Ou peut-etre ont-ils oublie tout simplement que ces registres existaientt" And he concludes the thought with what might be the governing idea or at least a guiding motto for this narrative, "Il suffit d'un peu de patience." (Please excuse the absence of the proper diacritical marks.)
The narrator mixes details of his own life, both his youth and his recent history, with the details he uncovers and discovers from the various sources about the life (and death) of Dora and, for that matter, of both of her parents and vast numbers of others rounded up and deported to death camps by the occupying Germans.
This powerful exploration of, one might also say meditation upon, the possibilities of ever knowing with certainty what has happened to others, especially in the past, as well as whether what one remembers about oneself is real or accurate, and whether or how one may interpret the "evidence" of photographs, printed records, identity papers, etc., appears to be one of the recurrent themes of Modiano's fiction. It is, perhaps, most precisely focused here (though I will have to read much more of his work to feel confident of this) because he has chosen a specific person who is not personally known to him, but whose fate he nonetheless wishes to establish. In the process, he recovers information about a number of other persons, also deported or otherwise destroyed by the "univers de boucherie et d'apocalypse" that was the European experience during the Second World War.
The narrator reflects on the art of fiction and the use, in classic novels, of coincidence, of the possibility of a kind of prophetic clairvoyance arising in a novelist who expends intense imaginative concentration on events--possibly actual events, possibly those only imagined: "cela fait simplement partie du metier: les efforts d'imagination, necessaires a ce metier, le besoin de fixer son esprit sur des points de detail--et cela de maniere obsessionnelle -- pour ne pas perdre le fil et se laisser a aller a sa paresse -- toute cette tension, cette gymnastique cerebrale peut sans doute provoquer a la longue de breves intuitions "concernant des evenements passes ou futurs" (p. 53). And that is a pretty good description of the narrative procedure of Dora Bruder. It is a fascinating sojourn with the mind of a master detective, a profoundly intuitive and ratiocinative mind, devoted to exploring the nature of human experience in times of extremity. The very nature of human identity--challenged by fear and oppression, forced into disguise and self-denial in the face of threats, transforming the self from a familiar to an alien entity while retaining some degree of consciousness of the necessary deception and the underlying truth--all these are aspects of Modiano's narrative, and all contribute to the emotional and intellectual impact of this wonderful work.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A Masterpiece
By F. McGavran
Dora Bruder is the story of a teen aged Jewish girl in Paris during the German occupation, who ran away from a Catholic school where she might have been safe. Only a few records and photographs of Dora and her parents survive, all with no reason for her escape, her return to her parents, her subsequent return to the school and her second escape. Shortly afterwards Dora and then her parents were arrested and sent to Auschwitz. Patrick Modiano weaves Dora’s story with his search for the truth about his father, also a Jew, who mysteriously survived arrest himself, possibly because he was working with a criminal organization that was part of the French Gestapo. By compressing the Holocaust into the story of one girl, her family, and his own life and memories, Modiano expresses the horror and compels our compassion and understanding. This is a masterpiece.
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