Inside The New York Times Book Review: Patrick Modiano’s ‘Suspended Sentences’

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The New York Times

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🗓️ 26 December 2014

⏱️ 32 minutes

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This week, Alan Riding discusses Patrick Modiano’s “Suspended Sentences”; Alexandra Alter has news from the literary world; Judith Newman talks about Ruth Goodman’s “How to Be a Victorian”; and best-seller news. Pamela Paul is the host.

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0:00.0	Who is Patrick Modiano, the recent winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature?
0:07.5	Alan Riding will join us to talk about Modiano and his new collection of novellas suspended
0:13.3	sentences.
0:14.3	He goes back sometimes to the occupation itself, but very often to people who he met, who
0:20.3	maybe had some role and he goes to investigate.
0:23.5	Would it be any fun to live in the Victorian age or a total nightmare?
0:26.8	Judith Newman will be here to talk about her review of Ruth Goodman's How to Be Victorian,
0:31.8	a dawn to dusk a guide to Victorian life.
0:34.6	No sewage, tripling of the population, you can figure out what happened to human waste.
0:40.3	This is Inside the New York Times Book Review.
0:42.1	I'm Pamela Paul.
0:45.4	Alan Riding joins us now from Paris.
0:47.2	He is a former European cultural correspondent for The Times and this week he reviews three
0:53.3	newly translated novellas by the current Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Patrick Modiano.
1:01.2	The book is called Suspended Sentences.
1:03.8	Hi Alan.
1:04.8	Hi there.
1:05.8	So these books, it's three novellas.
1:07.8	They've just come out from Yale University Press.
1:11.1	Are the books related to novellas or the stories intertwined or do each stand on their
1:15.4	own?
1:16.4	Well with Modiano, he's always said that essentially he keeps writing the same book and he said
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