In Stockholm, Modiano talks about the role of the writer in front of an audience … – The Obs

Stockholm (AFP) – Patrick Modiano, 2014 Nobel Laureate for Literature, explored in Stockholm Sunday the role of the writer, remote witness of his time in his acceptance speech delivered before the price a happy public <. / p>

The writer of 69 years was visibly moved and very happy to be in the gold of the majestic hall of the Stock Exchange of the Swedish Academy, before a Swedish audience spellbound.

“I just found his work. He writes wonderfully. It’s like reading poetry in novel form,” he told AFP Sandra Wigfors, a communications officer for 27 years.

“I aspire to the atmosphere. It’s the culture at the highest level. It’s a real honor to meet those who create like that,” marveled Ann Gill, a teacher of 61 years.

Guest of “Maestro, please” to take place on the stage by the permanent secretary of the Swedish Academy Peter Englund, the novelist has lent to the exercise under the gaze of his family

-. The writer ‘prisoner of his time’ –

On your first hesitant, then insured, Modiano explored in his speech the essence of role of the writer. “Prisoner of his time”, it is marked by his perception of the time in which he was born and where he lives.

So, Modiano sees himself as “a child of the war (. ..), a child who has had its birth in Paris of the occupation. ” “I think some episodes of my childhood were used as matrix my books later,” he has said.

There is also a twenty-first century writer who, like his peers, can experience some vis-à-vis nostalgia for the nineteenth novelists because “time was passing a slower manner than today, and this slowness accorded to the work of the novelist because he could better focus its energy and attention. “

According to him, this explains the differences between” large massive romantic past (..) and discontinuous and fragmented works today. “

” Most social networks + begin by privacy and secrecy that was still our well until recently – the secret that gave depth to people and could be a great romantic theme, “he continued.

The novelist yet refuses to condemn the culture of the Internet and immediately conveyed by social networks.

“I am convinced that the writers of the future will take over as was because each generation from Homer “because he said the writer” always expresses in his works something timeless “

-. Sonnambula, seeing seismograph … –

In turn acupuncturist, sleepwalking, seeing, seismograph, every author is also an artist: Modiano explained feel a kinship with both painters – such Modigliani – that musicians, he has said , “seemed to me to practice a high art of the novel.”

Awarded for “the art of memory with which it has given rise to the most elusive destinies and discover the world lived under the Occupation” Nazi he believes that the memory is inseparable from the work of the novelist.

“This is probably the vocation of novelist, before this great writer’s forgetfulness, to reappear a few words erased half as these lost icebergs that drift on the ocean surface, “he concluded.

” It was fantastic. I am full of admiration. But all the applause, he is so shy that he seemed embarrassed, “said Björn Ahlberg, a retired 70 years.

Patrick Modiano is the fifteenth French author to be crowned by a Nobel Prize for Literature . He will receive his award Wednesday from King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden, together with the other winners, 2014, with the exception of those who receive the peace in Oslo.