Such fine boys
By: Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti ; with a foreword by J.M.G. Le Clézio
Contributors: Polizzotti, Mark, translator; Le Clézio, J.-M. G. (Jean-Marie Gustave), 1940- author of foreword
Series: A Margellos world republic of letters book; Margellos world republic of letters book
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9780300223347
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Fiction; Teenage boys; Translations into English; French fiction; Boarding schools
Work titles: De si brave garçons
Description: "As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a series of exquisitely crafted stories about such jettisoned boys at the exclusive Valvert School on the outskirts of Paris: abandoned children of privilege, left to create new family ties among themselves. Misfits and heroes, sports champions and good-hearted chums, the boys of Valvert misbehave, run away, get expelled, and engage in various forms of delinquency and disappearance. They emerge into adulthood tragically damaged, still tethered to their adolescent selves, powerless to escape the central loneliness of their lives in an ever-darkening spiral of self-delusion and grim consequence"--Back cover.
Notes: Originally published as: De si braves garçons (Paris : Editions Gallimard, 1982).

Translation from the French of: De si braves garcons.

Winnier of the Nobel Prize in Literature.