Monday, December 8, 2014

Modiano: “The Internet can not answer all questions” – Västerbotten Courier

Culture Nobel Prize, Patrick Modiano to feel like a child who suddenly could go into the hall, populated by previous winners. There he tells the Swedish Academy’s press conference.

The alarm from the Old Town Christmas market anticipated in the background and the atmosphere is quite different from the example Herta Mueller and Mo Yan’s press conferences earlier this year. Not even half as many journalists are in place in the Stock Exchange, and the Nobel laureates are not liable for any political tricky devices.

Patrick Modiano respond favorably and winding whether the questions were about his writing in general or on his grandfather’s business in Venezuela, a small detail in his autobiographical book “A pedigree,” and of interest to a Colombian journalist.

Nobel Prize surprised him so much so that he suddenly saw himself from the outside, as if it were someone else who was at the center of all this.

– A part of me was like a sleepwalker, but so get used to it bit by bit, even if you do not get used at all.

Remembered Pasternak

The price threw him back to adolescence when Boris Pasternak won the Nobel Prize.

– Even as a child I was interested in literature and I remembered that Pasternak could not go to Stockholm.

– Although I aged, I’m still in that time. I felt like I was a child that went into this room with all these great people.

Just childhood and youth experiences he highlights as crucial to his writing. Not until he turned 21, he became an adult in the legal sense. Until then, he could not live his life the way he wanted, which he compensated by observing those who could not make it and by imagining a life that he could not put into practice.

– You get a stronger powers of observation as a prisoner.

stuck in his own works

His readers often feel how his novels going in and out of each other as if they were part of the same universe . Modiano describes herself as stuck in his own work, unable both to see it from the outside and to highlight any of its more than 30 novels that more special than the other. Yet it becomes clear that although he sees books as some kind of whole.

– It is a bit like weaving a carpet, but when you see everything up close has no overview, I forget even entire books I have written.

While acting all his books that just remembering. Modiano is often based on actual data from old telephone directories and other documentary shards when he starts writing. Before the internet was more mysteries mean Modiano which, however, sees a future for memory archaeologists as he himself also with the network.

– The social networks induces another form of imagination, it is possible to find novels also in the divided.

– There is also a resistance, I have always tried to find missing people and I have said to myself that it would be easier with the help of the internet, but the internet can not answer all questions.

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