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【咖啡廳常客女子的失蹤，六零年代巴黎的悵然所失】
In the Café of Lost Youth 《青春咖啡館》又譯《在青春迷失的咖啡館》
作者蒙迪安諾 Patrick Modiano 再現他青春回憶中1960年代的巴黎，以他慣用的敘述手法，為不在場的賓客備上一席盛宴。在離左岸的大學不遠的街上有一間孔代咖啡館，這裡是初出茅廬、徜徉學術研究、終日談論文學與藝術、懷抱理想或逃避現實的年輕人們聚集之地。
而其中一位頻繁出入咖啡館的22歲女子露琪，相貌出眾卻每次都獨自在店裡角落閱讀的她成為眾人杯盤間的話題。由四位敘述者「我」穿插描述，行蹤忽然成謎的露琪不停變換身分、逃避生活、躲避熟識的親友。所有人都對她著迷，卻沒有人了解她，無法看清露琪的真面目...
NYRB Classics Original
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
In the Café of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, inspired in part by the circle (depicted in the photographs of Ed van der Elsken) of the notorious and charismatic Guy Debord, centers on the enigmatic, waiflike figure of Louki, who catches everyone’s attention even as she eludes possession or comprehension. Through the eyes of four very different narrators, including Louki herself, we contemplate her character and her fate, while Modiano explores the themes of identity, memory, time, and forgetting that are at the heart of his spellbinding and deeply moving art.
ISBN:9781590179536
