A new Modiano novel reviewed as seen through frosted glass
En attendant Nadeau welcomes Patrick Modiano's latest book, L'éléphant, calling it a work of subtlety and emotion.
The literary review En attendant Nadeau has published a notice of Patrick Modiano's new novel, L'éléphant. According to the outlet, the book carries further than his previous novels a quality the review describes as being written "as if through a misted window" — a recurring image the critic uses to characterize the author's style in this title.
The review credits Modiano with pulling off what it calls a "merveilleux tour de passe-passe" — a marvelous sleight of hand — that turns the novel into what En attendant Nadeau terms a work of subtlety and emotion.
No further details on plot, length, or publisher have been given in the material available. Readers who follow Modiano, a Nobel laureate known for his spare prose and recurring themes of memory and disappearance, will find L'éléphant added to his body of work, per the review's framing.
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