'Invocation to Memory Enveloped by Fog': An Introduction to Missing Person, the 2014 Nobel Laureate Modiano's Nouveau Roman.
Robert Modiano, a well-known novelist in France but not highly known anywhere else, won the most prestigious French prize the Prix Goncourt in 1978 for his novel Missing Person. The Nobel Academy awarded him the 111th Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014. His novel Missing Person, an unconventional de...
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