2014: Patrick Modiano: "So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood"

This is a later book for Modiano, came out right around the time he won the award. It regards a writer of quasi-memoir, and is thus a bit "meta" / hall-of-mirrors. The writer is contacted by someone who’s picked up a notebook he had lost, though he hadn't even known he'd lost it. In meeting the person to get back the book, the returner asks about a specific name written down there, since the returner had been leafing through….

As of this writing, I read this book better than three years ago and find  myself a little embarrassed for recollections of it. As I poke around, reading some reviews of the book and checking it out of the library in an electronic copy for a skim, I find that this very problem I’m having about the book - the fade of memory, the struggle to reassemble past experience from clues - is what the book is about. So that’s a daub of synchronicity.  So I’ll call my non-description of the book nuancedly self-referential, and call it a day.

I liked it, hey. Time permitting in life, I'd like to read something from Modiano again.

(4/4/2020)