Authors:

Arup Sarma

Abstract:

Jean Patrick Modiano ( Nobel Laureate for literature in 2014  is a contemporary voice of post war France since the second half of the 20^th century whose literary imaginings can best be studied within the gamut of French and Francophone studies. Modiano raises the concerns of the Jews (a racial group) and the other immigrant communities in his fictions. The predicament of the uprooted individuals due to war and persecution who are in search of home and security primarily draws Modiano’s literary attention. The endless struggle of those people makes him engage with identity problems. Those people have no past and if they have any, it heads them towards an unpleasant one. The article is an investigation to locate Modiano as a diasporic writer by a close reading of his fictions: La Place de l'Étoile , Missing Person and In Café of Lost Youth.

Keywords:

Immigrant communities, diasporic writer, identity problems

Vol & Issue:

VOL.17, ISSUE No.4, December 2025