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Night rounds

When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. The Night Watch is his second novel and tells the story of a young man of limited means, caught between his work for the French Gestapo informing on the Resistance, and his work for a Resistance cell informing on the police and the black market dealers whose seedy milieu of nightclubs, prostitutes and spivs he shares. Under pressure from both sides to inform and bring things to a crisis, he finds himself driven towards an act of self-sacrifice as the only way to escape an impossible situation and the question that haunts him how to be a traitor without being a traitor.In this astonishing, cruel and tender book, Modiano attempts to exorcise the past by leading his characters out on a fantasmagoric patrol during one fatal night of the Occupation.

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  • "When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. The Night Watch is his second novel and tells the story of a young man of limited means, caught between his work for the French Gestapo informing on the Resistance, and his work for a Resistance cell informing on the police and the black market dealers whose seedy milieu of nightclubs, prostitutes and spivs he shares. Under pressure from both sides to inform and bring things to a crisis, he finds himself driven towards an act of self-sacrifice as the only way to escape an impossible situation and the question that haunts him how to be a traitor without being a traitor.In this astonishing, cruel and tender book, Modiano attempts to exorcise the past by leading his characters out on a fantasmagoric patrol during one fatal night of the Occupation."@en
  • "Surrealistic tale of a double agent during World War II."@en
  • "When Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize for LIterature he was praised for using the 'art of memory' to bring to life the Occupation of Paris during the Second World War. The Night Watch is his second novel and tells the story of a young man of limited means, caught between his work for the French Gestapo informing on the Resistance, and his work for a Resistance cell informing on the police and the black market dealers whose seedy milieu of nightclubs, prostitutes and spivs he shares. Under pressure from both sides to inform and bring things to a crisis, he finds himself driven towards an act of self-sacrifice as the only way to escape an impossible situation and the question that haunts him - how to be a traitor without being a traitor. In this astonishing, cruel and tender book, Modiano attempts to exorcise the past by leading his characters out on a fantasmagoric patrol during one fatal night of the Occupation."
  • "Comment devenir traître, comment ne pas l'être ? C'est la question que se pose le héros du récit qui travaille en même temps pour la Gestapo française et pour un réseau de résistance. Cette quête angoissée le conduit au martyre, seule échappatoire possible. Par ce livre étonnant, tendre et cruel, Modiano tente d'exorciser le passé qu'il n'a pas vécu. Il réveille les morts et les entraîne au son d'une musique haletante, dans la plus fantastique ronde de nuit. -- Publisher description."
  • ""Comment devenir traître, comment ne pas l'être? C'est la question que se pose le héros du récit qui travaille en même temps pour la Gestapo française et pour un réseau de résistance."--Cover."

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  • "Fiction"
  • "War stories"@en
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "History"
  • "Powieść francuska"
  • "Powieść francuska"@pl
  • "Aufsatzsammlung"
  • "Modern fiction"
  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Electronic books"@en

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  • "Night rounds"
  • "Night rounds"@en
  • "La Ronde de nuit. [Postface par Jean Chalon.]"
  • "Ronda da noite"
  • "La ronde de nuit. (Roman). [Repr.]"
  • "La ronde de nuit : Roman"
  • "RONDE DE NUIT"
  • "La Ronde de nuit"
  • "Nawroty nocy"@pl
  • "Nawroty nocy"
  • "La ronde de nuit : texte intégral"
  • "La ronde de nuit"
  • "La ronde de nuit : roman"
  • "Night Watch, The"
  • "The night watch"@en
  • "La ronde de nuit : [roman]"
  • "Night rounds. Translated from the French by Patricia Wolf"@en
  • "La Ronde De Nuit"

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