A City of my Own: Paris and Desire in the Works of Patrick Modiano and Georges Perec

• In Event: The Image of Paris in Post-War Jewish Literary Memory

Abstract

This presentation focuses on the concept of desire and the ways in which it underlines the impossible search for certainty in Modiano and Perec. Using photographs of Paris in the post-war era, it examines Paris as a mythical city that plays an active part in the working out of traumatic loss through writing.

Author

• Amira Dan, York University, Center for Jewish Studies