“I’m nobody. Just a pale silhouette, this evening, on the café terrace.” With these words Patrick Modiano’s novel “Rue des Boutiques Obscures” (“Street of Dark Shops”), awarded the Prix Goncourt and translated into many languages, begins. Guy Roland is the name given to the hero—someone struck by the loss of memory—by a private detective who, at the hero’s request, tries to find traces of his earlier life. From this point on, he will have to carry out the investigation himself, step by step moving closer to the extraordinary solution of his fate.