Patrick Modiano et la mémoire des panneaux indicateurs lumineux d’itinéraires de la RATP/ Patrick Modiano and the memory of RATP illuminated itineraries panels

Les éditions Gallimard viennent de publier Souvenirs dormants, le dernier roman de Patrick Modiano, Prix Nobel de littérature en 2014, auquel (e)space&fiction a déjà consacré deux billets ici et ici. Dans Souvenirs dormants, l’auteur de Dora Bruder ou encore de Place de l’étoile, revisite ses souvenirs dans le Paris des années 50 et 60, avec…

A Self-Made Hero / Un héros très discret. Audiard (2)

(e)space&fiction already mentioned the London Underground map that Albert Dehousse learned by heart to enhance the credibility of his false engagement in the Resistance. One can found another very brilliant sequence later in the film when the « hero » travels to Germany for a military mission. Nous avons déjà mentionné dans (e)space&fiction le dispositif de la carte du…

Take the « A » train

Imagine that the lines of the New-York subway system became the strings of a cello plucked by the trains. You would have the musical map of Alexander Chen. Et si les lignes du métro new-yorkais devenaient les cordes d’un violoncelle que viennent pincer les trains qui les croisent ? Cela donnerait la carte musicale d’Alexander…

Rock’n’roll Metro Map

Alberto Antoniazzi, an Italian graphic designer, presents the history of  Rock as a subway map where every line corresponds to a sub-genre and every group or musician corresponds to a station that may connect two lines. He uses all the codes of a subway map : colors, symbols, legend.  You can see  it on the…

Polichinelle mouillé, le tueur du métro – Fajardie

« Who is the murderer of the subway? Who is this man who pushes innocents under the train? And who are its victims? » Such is the plot of the thriller written by Frederic H. Fajardie in 1982. Police inspector Padovani (recurring character in the work of Fajardie) investigates. During a briefing with his staff, he says:…