What does /lit/ think of pic related ? It's short, easy

>>9290082
>''...Why not, i don't have anything else to do right now, i will read i-''
>said she liked it
>she

Well, fuck it then.

>>9290082
>I don't see how this guy got a Nobel prize.

I don't see how half the laureates get the prize desu.

Easily one of his weaker works. When diving into modiano I always recommend to start with after the circus. Its his most commercial work that also captures what he's all about. His occupation trilogy is not all that good imo. The Nobel was simply given to him for being one of the first to write about France's involvement and compliance with the Holocaust. Though this theme does run through his work - an eerie sense of doing what you must to survive - it works best when it is cast in the background with subtly, which is what modiano does best. If you like after the circus proceed to young once, the cafe of lost youth, or (imo his best) honeymoon. Stay away from Paris nocturne and so you don't get lost in the neighborhood. They're essentially detective novels without detectives. The only reason to read them is to fill in the gaps from his other works, because yes all his novels are connected. Many of them are the same story told in different ways. This is frustrating to some but if you fall in love with modiano's style like I have you'll take what you can get. Imo he is absolutely the best modern author of capturing mood and atmosphere. I just wish he'd write about something else than 60s France or Vichy France. Pay attention to his sentences and you'll find yourself reading about a nonplussed man simply placing his head against a window whilst he describes the raindrops falling onto a sleeping city. And then the next sentence will absolutely wreck you. Modiano doesn't reveal much but when he does, it hits. This turns off a lot of people, especially the /lit/ crowd, but give after the circus a shot op. Hopefully there will be more modiano fags for me to sperg around with

>>9290192
Also I have quite a collection of his books in PDF or other formats. If anyone is interested I might get around to uploading them to mega or something, but no promises

>>9290192
thanks, this reminds me of some authors I like - even Simenon, actually -, I'll read some more.