Two Voices Salon: Chris Clarke on Modiano

Two Voices Salon with Chris Clarke on Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano.

We’ll talk with Chris Clarke about his translation of French writer and Nobel Prize winner Patrick Modiano’s In the Cafe of Lost Youth (New York Review Books). A short, pensive novel of bohemian Paris just after the war, Kirkus Reviews calls it “Evocative and perfectly written—trademark Modiano, in other words.”

Clarke is a PhD student in French at City University of New York (CUNY), and together with Barbara Wright, translator of Exercises in Style: 65th Anniversary Edition, a collection of fiction by Raymond Queneau.

We’ll kick off the evening as usual with a short discussion of what’s new in translation and what we’re reading now. Come prepared to join the conversation!
FREE food and drinks.