Robert Modiano, a well-known novelist in France but not highly known anywhere else, won the most prestigious French prize the Prix Goncourt in 1978 for his novel Missing Person. The Nobel Academy awarded him the 111th Nobel Prize for Literature in 2014. His novel Missing Person, an unconventional detective, is about Guy Roland (Jimmy Pedro Stern/Pedro McEvoy), the protagonist and a victim to amnesia, who loses his memory and ventures to know about himself. As a pragmatic practitioner of ‘meditation on identity,’ he turns to solving his own mystery. Like a seeker, he makes full use of former Detective Agency’s files including directories, yearbooks, photographs, police files, vague testimonies and newspaper clippings of all kinds going back half a century and making a rigorous search by discontinuity and turbulence, of knowing about himself and his past. In the end, he realizes that the person he is seeking will never be found, his identity as ephemeral as “the sand holds the traces of our footsteps but a few moments.” This elegant novel runs like a typical Nouveau Roman as many issues remain mostly unresolved and unanswered. With its intricacies and subtleties and its colloidal and unadorned prose style, “la petite musique”, as the French say, the novel like Marcel Proust’s: À larecherche du temps perdu conveniently releases the creative energies of past experience from the hidden store of the unconscious.