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For ten years Guy Roland has lived without a past. His current life and name were given to him by his recently retired boss, Hutte, who welcomed him, a one-time client, into his detective agency. Guy makes full use of Hutte's files - directories, yearbooks, and papers of all kinds going back half a century - but leads to his former life are few. Could he really be that person in a photograph, a young man remembered by some as a South American attache? Or was he someone else, perhaps the disappeared scion of a prominent local family? He interviews strangers and is tantalized by half-clues until, at last, he grasps a thread that leads him through the maze of his own repressed experience.On one level Missing Person is a detective thriller, a 1950s film noir mix of smoky cafes, illegal passports, and insubstantial figures crossing bridges in the fog. On another level, it is also a haunting meditation on the nature of the self.
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An important writer, a disappointing book
6 Sep 2006
By K. Donow
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That Patrick Modiano is an important writer I have no doubt. He was the first important French novelist to investigate the memory of Vichy and the recovery of life in a post War France. Here he uses a stock device of a person with amnesia intent on discovering who they were in fact. This short novel holds out some tempting tidbits (the presence of the Dominican playboy Porfirio Rubirosa, for one) but very little was made of them. The narrative is loaded with geographical references which suggested something of significance I suspect, but nothing in the text supported them very well. I do not think the problems are on the translator's shoulders, but some notation might have helped. Oh, well. You win some, you lose some. Tant pis.
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Clever idea
26 April 2013
By David in Texas
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Europe after six years of brutal war had people dead, missing, and damaged. I picture Hutte's detective services using directories, yearbooks, census, and memories to locate the missing. Hutte has taken in Guy, a stray person that was acquired from the lost and missing of WW II. Guy has no memory of his past and starts the search with just an old photo and a possible name. I would read a couple of chapters, note the streets and bridges in Paris, and research them on Google Earth giving life to the scene. I could feel empathy for Guy during his interviews...questions unanswered, questions unasked, memories unclear..........
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