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Автор: Patrick Modiano
Издательство: Ingram
Серия: Verba Mundi Book
Жанр произведения: Контркультура
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isbn: 9781567925432
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      This is a Verba Mundi Book

      published in 2005 by

      DAVID R. GODINE, Publisher

      Post Office Box 450

      Jaffrey, New Hampshire 03452

       www.godine.com

      First published in Great Britain 1980

      This translation © Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 1980

      Jonathan Cape, Ltd., 30 Bedford Square, London WC1

      First published in French 1978,

      under the title Rue des Boutiques Obscures

      © Éditions Gallimard, 1978

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For more information, write to Permissions, David R. Godine, Publisher, 15 Court Square, Suite 320, Boston, Massachusetts 02108.

      LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA

      Modiano, Patrick, 1945–

      [Rue des boutiques obscures. English]

      Missing person / by Patrick Modiano ; translated from the

      French by Daniel Weissbort. — 1st ed.

      p. cm. — (A Verba Mundi book)

      ISBN 1-56792-281-3 (softcover : alk. paper)

      EBOOK ISBN 978-1-56792-543-2

      I. Weissbort, Daniel. II. Title. III. Series: Verba Mundi.

      PQ2673. 03R813 2004

      843'.914—dc22

      2004019881

      For Rudy

      For my father

      Contents

       Chapter 1

       Chapter 2

       Chapter 3

       Chapter 4

       Chapter 5

       Chapter 6

       Chapter 7

       Chapter 8

       Chapter 9

       Chapter 10

       Chapter 11

       Chapter 12

       Chapter 13

       Chapter 14

       Chapter 15

       Chapter 16

       Chapter 17

       Chapter 18

       Chapter 19

       Chapter 20

       Chapter 21

       Chapter 22

       Chapter 23

       Chapter 24

       Chapter 25

       Chapter 26

       Chapter 27

       Chapter 28

       Chapter 29

       Chapter 30

       Chapter 31

       Chapter 32

       Chapter 33

       Chapter 34

       Chapter 35

       Chapter 36

       Chapter 37

       Chapter 38

       Chapter 39

       Chapter 40

       Chapter 41

       Chapter 42

       Chapter 43

       Chapter 44

       Chapter 45

       Chapter 46

       Chapter 47

      I AM NOTHING. Nothing but a pale shape, silhouetted that evening against the café terrace, waiting for the rain to stop; the shower had started when Hutte left me.

      Some hours before, we had met again for the last time on the premises of the Agency. Hutte, as usual, sat at his massive desk, but with his coat on, so that there was really an air of departure about it. I sat opposite him, in the leather armchair we kept for clients. The opaline lamp shed a bright light which dazzled me.

      “Well,