Tracing the tracks of Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder

Abstract

The reminiscent tradition, as known for some readers, is essential themes around which stand the Patrick Modiano’s narrative topics such as identity, history, and memory. But his book Dora Bruder, according to the conclusions reached by the present paper, contradicts this equation.

Our work on the tradition value will gradually reveal a contrast. The reminiscent tradition which formed the plot of the novel and the track of investigation adopted by the narrator seeking collecting the information about the character underwent the history violence during Second World War did not reflect but absence because of the girl disappearance as she had been killed in one of the Nazi death camps.

Narrator employed the character tradition to focus on this identity absence through his experience attempting re-discovering the city, Paris. After long wait and recalling childhood memories, he became certain that he found nothing but absolute absence. Thus, the tradition value, though recurred more than absence, came as an equivalent to absence through the linguistic from employed by narrator to assure the absence the character feelings reflect.

At last, the researcher concluded that the reminiscent tradition in Dora Bruder deepens nothing but absence.