Patrick Modiano: is he a modern-day Proust?
Tuesday, December 30th, 2025
Winter is a great time for reading. Here’s our suggestion for 2026. The next “Another Look” book club event at Stanford will feature a Nobel prizewinner. You won’t want to miss it. (Did we mention that “Another Look” is the biggest book club in the world?)
On Wednesday, 18 February, 2026, Another Look will present Nobel prizewinning Patrick Modiano’s 2007 novella, In the Café of Lost Youth (New York Review Books). The event will take place, as always, at 7 p.m. at Levinthal Hall, 424 Santa Teresa Street on the Stanford campus.
Panelists will include Stanford Prof. Robert Pogue Harrison, author, director of Another Look, host of the radio talk show and podcast series Entitled Opinions, and a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books, and Stanford Prof. Tobias Wolff, one of America’s leading writers and the founding director of Another Look, as well as a recipient of the National Medal of Arts.
They will be joined by Chloe Edmondson, a lecturer in Stanford’s Department of French and Italian. She is the France-Stanford Center Fellow for the Roxane Debuisson Collection on Paris History. You will remember her from our event Madame de LaFayette’s The Princesse de Clèves in 2019. Valerie Kinsey, a Stanford lecturer in Writing and Rhetoric Studies, will round out the panel.
The Nobel announcement recognized Modiano’s “consistent exploration of memory and the elusive nature of personal history, often set against the backdrop of occupied Paris.”
He has been praised for his “subtle, clear style and his ability to bring anonymous lives to light, making him a modern-day Proust in the eyes of some.”
Register on the link below:
https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_-03yUMbsSWWwJdijPIQg3w
Walk-ins are welcome, but we encourage registration. Hope to see you soon!
