The most recent addition to the complete review is my review of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's Honeymoon, one of the few Modiano titles in print in the US at the time of the Nobel-announcement, and now quickly reissued in paperback by Godine.
Published in French in 1990, this one comes and fits smack in the middle of the trio just published by Yale University Press in Suspended Sentences (see my review of, for example, the title novel). There's little doubt that this is one of the Modiano-peaks (of a pretty high (and very extensive) plateau). And while Suspended Sentences fare very well under the translating hand of Mark Polizzotti, it was old master Barbara Wright who translated this one -- and nailed it.
Published in French in 1990, this one comes and fits smack in the middle of the trio just published by Yale University Press in Suspended Sentences (see my review of, for example, the title novel). There's little doubt that this is one of the Modiano-peaks (of a pretty high (and very extensive) plateau). And while Suspended Sentences fare very well under the translating hand of Mark Polizzotti, it was old master Barbara Wright who translated this one -- and nailed it.