Cooke explores diffuse autobiography, the role of the readers, and the notions of biography and historical writing in 12 of Modiano's texts that deal specifical... » 

Cooke explores diffuse autobiography, the role of the readers, and the notions of biography and historical writing in 12 of Modiano's texts that deal specifically with life-writing in both autobiographical and biographical/historiographical projects. These range from La Place de l' toile (1968) to La Petite Bijou (2001). She does not take them chro «