PhD Completion Seminar, Phoebe Weston-Evans

You are warmly invited to attend Phoebe Weston-Evans' Completion seminar titled:

Silence in the Works of Patrick Modiano

Patrick Modiano was awarded the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature for work that ‘uncovered the life-world of the Occupation’, acknowledging his role in dispersing silences entrenched in this dark period in France’s history. Modiano’s literature, however, abounds in silences, the unsaid and the unsayable; it simultaneously indicts and is permeated by silence. Recognising divergent definitions and interpretations of silence, my thesis seeks to illuminate the nature of this tension across Modiano’s twenty-seven novels, spanning almost five decades from La place de l’étoile (1968) to Souvenirs dormants (2017).

Date: Tuesday 09 June 2020
Time: 4:00PM AEST

Zoom link: https://unimelb.zoom.us/j/92080991329?pwd=Z0o1a0NIMlhtViswaHBxNjBpMGhxZz09 and meeting ID 920 8099 1329.