I wonder what it is that I like so much about this narrator, one of my favorite writers. Not one of his books has ever disappointed me! It doesn't matter if you read one of his novels or a collection of short stories: the style is unmistakable (short, sharp, elegant sentences; very penetrating psychological observations, always subtle). But the style of Patrick Modiano is also unmistakable, and, for me, the Frenchman is of very little interest. Peter Stamm's narrative situations—the setting, the spaces in which the action or thought unfolds—are very attractive to me: but so are those devised by Jonathan Franzen and Eider Rodríguez, for instance, and to me, the books of these two authors, while quite remarkable, do not move me as much as those of the Swiss writer.