Patrick Modiano
- ISBN-10
- 9042013613
- ISBN-13
- 9789042013612
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 129
- Language
- French
- Published
- 2000
- Publisher
- Rodopi
- Author
- Alan Morris
Description
De La Place de l'étoile et Ronde de nuit à Rue des boutiques obscures, Fleurs de ruine et Dora Bruder, Patrick Modiano ne cesse d'élaborer une des très puissantes oeuvres romanesques de notre modernité. Centré sur les grandes questions de l'identité et de l'exil, des tensions de notre créativité et de nos pulsions (auto)destructrices, de la quête d'un sens qui se dérobe et nous pousse à (nous) fuir au coeur même de notre poursuite, le roman de Modiano génère et multiplie à la fois oppositions et désirs, apories et possibilités cathartiques, fascinations mortifères et dynamismes revitalisants. Si le principe d'une conceptualisation binaire se manifeste partout, il n'en est pas moins vrai que ce même principe est doublé d'une polysémie, d'une plurivocité qui accorde à l'oeuvre de Modiano une souplesse et une ouverture à bien des égards postmodernes. Les ambiguïtés qui en découlent ne sont aucunement gratuites, mais s'offrent authentiquement et discrètement oeuvrantes, ludiques et ironiques certes, mais vécues et creusées avec l'intensité paradoxale de tout ce qui reste innommable dans l'acte et le lieu obsessionnel de l'écriture. L'étude d'Alan Morris, concise et élégante, et que caractérisent une clarté exemplaire et une très fine pénétration analytique, donne à l'oeuvre de Patrick Modiano un geste critique manifestement à la hauteur de celle-ci.
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