In the Cafe of Lost Youth S.L. EL CROQUIS House of Incest (1936) was

House of Incest (1936) was followed by the collection of three novellas

a young girl in Stratford-upon-Avon takes to her bed with a sudden fever

and they live at opposite ends of a big apartment building

reminiscence and shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate

and Octavio Paz

In the Cafe of Lost Youth S.L. EL CROQUIS House of Incest (1936) wasNYRB Classics Original Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature In the Caf of Lost Youth is vintage Patrick Modiano, an absorbing evocation of a particular Paris of the 1950s, shadowy and shady, a secret world of writers, criminals, drinkers, and drifters. The novel, inspired in part by the circle (depicted in the photographs of Ed van der Elsken) of the notorious and charismatic Guy Debord, centers on the enigmatic, waiflike figure of Louki, who