Missing PersonCape, 1980 - 159 pagine "In this strange, elegant novel, winner of the 1978 Prix Goncourt, Patrick Modiano portrays a man in pursuit of the identity he lost in the murky days of the Paris Occupation. On one level a tantalising detective thriller - with overtones of Simenon in both style and construction - Missing persons also penetrates a shadowy region where the convention of identity is itself in question..."--Book jacket. |
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Pagina 141
... Sallanches station or in Megève , in the patisserie near the church , might have recognized him ; the woman who brought our provisions and did some housework might have identified him as ' the English jockey , André Wildmer ' . Had he ...
... Sallanches station or in Megève , in the patisserie near the church , might have recognized him ; the woman who brought our provisions and did some housework might have identified him as ' the English jockey , André Wildmer ' . Had he ...
Pagina 145
... Sallanches station and who had offered us a ride in his car . A Russian , married to a very pretty Frenchwoman . I believe he traded in tins of paint and in aluminium . He often telephoned Paris from the chalet and I kept telling ...
... Sallanches station and who had offered us a ride in his car . A Russian , married to a very pretty Frenchwoman . I believe he traded in tins of paint and in aluminium . He often telephoned Paris from the chalet and I kept telling ...
Pagina 150
... driver . My chin brushed against the fur collar of his lumber - jacket . ' Take me back to Sallanches station , ' I said . He turned round . He seemed surprised . ' As you wish , sir . ' Subject : HOWARD DE LUZ . Alfred Jean . Born 150.
... driver . My chin brushed against the fur collar of his lumber - jacket . ' Take me back to Sallanches station , ' I said . He turned round . He seemed surprised . ' As you wish , sir . ' Subject : HOWARD DE LUZ . Alfred Jean . Born 150.
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