Modiano just won the literature Nobel.
No, I don’t know his work. I’ll do some sniffing around and maybe post something later, though.
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As early as 1974, Michel Foucault, discussing Modiano’s screenplay for Louis Malle’s Occupation film Lacombe Lucien, was one of many who saw how all of Modiano’s work implied a reaction to Gaullist-era myths no less than to the wartime Collaboration whose shame virtually required those myths in order to shield itself from scrutiny.
(This passage comes from a book about Modiano whose first chapter – fully available at the above link – usefully reviews critical responses to his work.)