In the Cafe of Lost Youth S.L. EL CROQUIS Edited by Henry Glassie

Edited by Henry Glassie

and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building

The year is 1Q84

House of Incest (1936) was followed by the collection of three novellas

a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever

In the Cafe of Lost Youth S.L. EL CROQUIS Edited by Henry GlassieNYRB Classics Original Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In the Caf of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, inspired in part by the circle (depicted in the photographs of Ed van der Elsken) of the notorious and charismatic Guy Debord, centers on the enigmatic, waiflike figure of Louki, who