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Within the same area and also in collaboration with Universitat de València, the round table “Patrick Modiano, cinema, history and memory” will be held on Thursday at 20:00. Juan Miguel Company, university professor of Language Theory and Communication Sciences at the Universitat de València; Pedro Ruiz Torres, full university professor of Contemporary History and ex Principal at the Universitat de València; and Manuel Perís, journalist will take part in the round table. At the session, introduced by the writer Alfons Cervera, extracts from the film “Lacombe Lucien” will be screened. This film is directed by Louis Malle, based on the script written by Modiano and Malle himself.

Manuel Peris has published the last number of the magazine of contemporary thought “Pasajes” a long article about history and in memory of Patrick Modiano. At the lecture, the journalist will also address the role of the Parisian urban topography in the work of the new Nobel. 

Patrick Modiano (Boulogne-Billancourt, 1945), spent his childhood in several boarding schools in Biarritz, Jouy-en-Josas and Alta Saboya. With his parents often missing, he had a very deep relationship with his younger brother Rudy, that died at the age of ten. This tragedy will mark his work. His first novel, “La place de l’étoile”, appeared in 1968. He received the Goncourt Prize in 1978 for “Rue des boutiques obscures”. Author of thirty novels, he is also co-author of the script of the movie“Lacombe Lucien”  by Louis Malle and“Bon voyage”  by Jean-Paul Rappeneau. Patrick Modiano has received the Nobel Prize for Literature 2014, according to the decision of the jury, “for his art of memory with which has evoked the most difficult to portray and unveiled the world of human destinies Occupation”. It is the fifteenth French writer to receive the prestigious award.