English-language readers will be pleased to hear that another of Patrick Modiano’s novels has been translated from French and is available in the UK. If, like me, and my blog followers, you have become addicted to Modiano’s writing then this next one should be a real treat. The original French version, called L’herbe des nuits has been around in paperback since May 2014, its literal translation would have been, well, Nights’ Grass , Night Grasses , the story itself holds a clue as the narrator searches for the lost words of a manuscript from the 1960s, one is put in mind of the lines from a poem by Mandelstam: 'What pain - hunting for the lost word, lifting these sore eyelids, And, with lime in your blood, gathering night grasses for alien tribes' From Osip Mandelstam's poem 'January 1, 1924' But my interest is that Modiano’s novel may unlock literary tourism to the book’s opening location in Paris, t
ISSN 2753-7803
