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Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Topography
7. A Psychogeography of Dora Bruder 31
8. “Ô popoï, popoï, popoï” 45
9. Perec, Raczymow, and Their Sites of Memory 59
10. Familiar Strangers
11. Comme Dieu en France? 73
12. Sarah Kofman 87
13. Ambivalences
14. A City of My Own 103
15. Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder 113
16. “Paris of Days Gone By” 123
17. Absence
18. Past Imperfect 141
19. Paris Obscur 161
20. Algerian Echoes in Modiano’s and Perec’s Cityscapes of Holocaust Memory 175
21. Past Imperfect
22. Perec’s Ghost City 191
23. Street Walking Paris 203
24. The Afterlife of Irène Némirovsky’s Suite française 221
25. Contributors 243
26. Index 247