Patrick Modiano publishes a slim new book titled "L'Éléphant"
The writer's latest, a short volume carrying a deliberately outsized title, is described by France Culture as a concentrated return to his familiar register.
Patrick Modiano has a new book out, a thin volume given the ironic title "L'Éléphant," according to France Culture's literary chronicle on its program Le Regard culturel, aired on 13 October.
The program describes the book as a distilled example of what it calls Modiano's manner: prose that looks grey and spare on the surface but, in this case as in others, is said to hold anguish, tension and tenderness beneath it.
No publisher, length or publication date was given in the broadcast, and no further details of the plot or characters were disclosed.
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