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Article: A Self-Conscious Art: Patrick Modiano's Postmodern Fictions.(Book Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- July 1, 2004
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A Self-Conscious Art: Patrick Modiano's Postmodern Fictions. By AKANE KAWAKAMI. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2000. 166 pp. 32.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk 15.95). ISBN 0-85323-526-0 (pbk 0-85323-536-8).
The picture of Modiano to emerge from Akane Kawakami's study is of a rather withdrawn figure, a writer who is suspicious and even dismissive of 'high literature' and especially of the academic interest it generates. Almost as a response to this attitude his own work has yet to receive any lengthy, serious critical attention from the academic establishment in France. Not only is he dismissed by many as a 'popular novelist', but he is seen to be a writer who ...