Patrick Modiano

Akane Kawakami is a Professor in French Literature at Birkbeck, University of London. She has written numerous articles on modern and contemporary French and Francophone literature, and is the author of A Self-Conscious Art: Patrick Modiano’s Postmodern Fictions (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2000); Travellers’ Visions: French Literary Encounters with Japan, 1881-2004 (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005); and Photobiography: Photographic Self-Writing in Proust, Guibert, Ernaux and Macé (Oxford: Legenda, 2013). She has also published two books of essays in Japanese, introducing aspects of English culture to a Japanese readership.

• Introduction1 Degree Zero Voices: The Empty Narrator2 Disorderly Narratives: The Order of Narration3 Unreal Stories: The ‘effet d’irréel’4 Being Serious: Modiano’s Use of History5 Being Playful: Parody and Disappointment6 Being Popular: The Modiano Novel7 Being a Woman: Mothers and Lovers8 Being Eternal: The Endless Recurrence of Time and WritingNotesBibliographyIndex