Patrick Modiano: Dora Bruder(Dora Bruder; The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder)

The latest addition to my website is Patrick Modiano‘s Dora Bruder(Dora Bruder; The Search Warrant: Dora Bruder). Our narrator (presumably Modiano himself) comes across a 1941 newspaper announcement about a missing fifteen-year old girl, Dora Bruder. Over the course of the next few years, he decides to track her down, as far as he can. He finds out some details about her and her origins. Her parents were immigrant Jews. She was headstrong and clearly ran away from the Catholic convent school to which she had been sent. Some of the information he speculates about, based on the situation. Dora Bruder is just one girl among many who disappeared during the Nazi occupation of France but Modiano here is showing how she represents the other Jews arrested and murdered simply because they were Jews.

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