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2014年諾貝爾文學獎得主派屈克．莫迪亞諾（Patrick Modiano）早期作品， 1960年代初期，一位年輕男子到達法國湖畔，一個靠近瑞士的小鎮，試圖逃離壟罩著他的不知名惡意與恐懼。他隱身於其他遊客之間，直到遇見美麗的年輕女演員Yvonne Jacquet與古怪的醫生René Meinthe，在他們的邀約之下，開啟了夜夜笙歌的生活……
《Villa Triste》透過主角的境遇，描繪在一個不確定的世界裡，時間的稍縱即逝與失落的年少時代，以及他如何尋找身分與意義。
AN EARLY NOVEL BY NOBEL PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR PATRICK MODIANO
One of the most seductive and accessible works in Modiano's oeuvre: the story of a man's memories of fleeing responsibility, finding love and searching for meaning in an uncertain world.
The narrator of Villa Triste, an anxious, roving, stateless young man of eighteen, arrives in a small French lakeside town near Switzerland in the early 1960s. He is fleeing the atmosphere of menace he feels around him and the fear that grips him. Fear of war? Of imminent catastrophe? Of others? Whatever it may be, the proximity of Switzerland, to which he plans to run at the first sign of danger, gives him temporary reassurance.
The young man hides among the other summer visitors until he meets a beautiful young actress named Yvonne Jacquet, and a strange doctor, René Meinthe. These two invite him into their world of soirees and late-night debauchery. But when real life beckons once again, he finds no sympathy from his new companions. Modiano has written a haunting novel that captures lost youth, the search for identity, and ultimately, the fleetingness of time.