The occupation trilogy, p.31
The Occupation Trilogy, page 31
A NOTE ON THE TRANSLATOR
Frank Wynne has won three major prizes for his translations from the French, including the 2002 IMPAC for Atomised by Michel Houellebecq and the 2005 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize for Windows on the World by Frederic Beigbeder. He is also the translator from the Spanish of Tomás Eloy Martínez’s Purgatory, Miguel Figueras’s Kamchatka and Carlos Acosta’s Pig’s Foot. In 2014 he was awarded the Valle Inclán Prize for his translation of Alonso Cueto’s The Blue Hour.
First published 2015
This electronic edition published in 2015 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
La Place de l’Étoile was originally published in France 1968
by Éditions Gallimard, Paris, as La Place de l’Étoile
La Place de l’Étoile © Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1968, New edition modified by the author in 1985
English translation © Frank Wynne, 2015
The moral right of the author has been asserted
The Night Watch was originally published in France 1969 by Éditions Gallimard, Paris, as La Ronde de Nuit
First published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz in 1972, under the title Night Rounds
English translation © Patricia Wolf, 1971, first published in the United States of America by Alfred A. Knopf. Used by kind permission of The Knopf Doubleday Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC , revised by Frank Wynne in 2015
La ronde de nuit © Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1969
Ring Roads was originally published in France 1972 by Éditions Gallimard, Paris, as Les boulevards de ceinture
First published in Great Britain by Victor Gollancz in 1974
English translation by Caroline Hillier 1974, © Victor Gollancz Ltd, 1974, revised by Frank Wynne in 2015
Reprinted by kind permission of the Orion Publishing Group
Les boulevards de ceinture © Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1972
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Introduction copyright © William Boyd, 2015
From In Search of Lost Time Volume IV: Sodom and Gomorrah, by Marcel Proust, translated by C. K. Moncrieff & Terence Kilmartin and revised by D. J. Enright. Copyright © 1981 by Chatto & Windus and Penguin Random House LLC . Revisions to the translation copyright © 1992 by D. J. Enright.
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Patrick Modiano, The Occupation Trilogy
