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A review by bluemoosetom
So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood by Patrick Modiano, Euan Cameron
2.0
The best word to describe this book for me would be: imperfect. More in the grammatical sense where there just seems to be so much unfinished and unresolved at the end of this novella.
This book plays a lot with the vagueness and mutability of memory and the writing made it seem somewhat surreal. The uncertainty about all the events of Jean Daragane's life as a child and a young man is intriguing, but I wish it had been slightly more resolved. Especially given how furtive and reclusive he is as an older man in his sixties, it makes one wonder what exactly happened and if that is the reason for his rather odd behavior later in life.
The time periods jump around without much clarification, and I had some difficulty tracking the conversations to know who was speaking or who the antecedents to various pronouns were. Not sure if this was due to the writer's style or the translation, but it added to the nebulous nature of the story.
Read tangentially to the Reader's Emporium Book Club. I did not make the 12/20/2016 meeting.
This book plays a lot with the vagueness and mutability of memory and the writing made it seem somewhat surreal. The uncertainty about all the events of Jean Daragane's life as a child and a young man is intriguing, but I wish it had been slightly more resolved. Especially given how furtive and reclusive he is as an older man in his sixties, it makes one wonder what exactly happened and if that is the reason for his rather odd behavior later in life.
The time periods jump around without much clarification, and I had some difficulty tracking the conversations to know who was speaking or who the antecedents to various pronouns were. Not sure if this was due to the writer's style or the translation, but it added to the nebulous nature of the story.
Read tangentially to the Reader's Emporium Book Club. I did not make the 12/20/2016 meeting.