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It was published by Gallimard in 1968 and won the Roger Nimier Prize and Fénéon Prize. [1] The novel, which draws on elements of autobiography, recounts the story of Raphael Schlemilovitch, a French Jew born just after the war, who is haunted by the war and by thoughts of persecution.
While for most French-speaking people and, as the French title has been left in the English translation, presumably for most English-speaking people, La Place de l’Étoile is the square where the Arc de Triomphe is located in Paris, and from which twelve roads radiate, like a star.
Aug 23, 2015 · La Place de L’Etoile is a punch in the face: a frenetic and satirical account of a Jewish man’s trials and tribulations delivered without much consideration for political correctness
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Dec 9, 2020 · English. 152 pages ; 20 cm. Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation. We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphael Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing, who may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune, may have lived ...
Mar 10, 2016 · Patrick Modiano. Bloomsbury Publishing, Mar 10, 2016 - Fiction - 188 pages. The first novel by the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, which with The Night Watch and Ring Roads forms a...
Sep 22, 2015 · by Patrick Modiano (Author) Format: Kindle Edition. 3.8 104 ratings. See all formats and editions. Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano's first three novels, about Paris under Nazi occupation, now in a single volume; the earliest--La Place de l'Étoile--in English for the first time.
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La Place de l'Étoile is the first novel of the French writer Patrick Modiano. It was published by Gallimard in 1968 and won the Roger Nimier Prize and Fénéon Prize.
