Honeymoon
by Patrick Modiano
It parallels the story of Jean B., a filmmaker who abandons his wife and career to hole up in a Paris hotel, with that of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he'd met twenty years before, and whose mystery continues to haunt him.
'Honeymoon' is a quest, a conundrum and a lament, but above all, perhaps, it is a meditation on the seductions and pitfalls of memory. Modiano conjures up a world so delicate and elliptical, so fraught with uncertainty, that Jean's fleeting, poignant description of Ingrid Teyrsen linking her arm through his on a hot blue afternoon in the 1960s may be all there is to hold on to.
'Honeymoon' is a quest, a conundrum and a lament, but above all, perhaps, it is a meditation on the seductions and pitfalls of memory. Modiano conjures up a world so delicate and elliptical, so fraught with uncertainty, that Jean's fleeting, poignant description of Ingrid Teyrsen linking her arm through his on a hot blue afternoon in the 1960s may be all there is to hold on to.