Modiano’s La Place de l’étoile is a mix of discourses, pastiches and parodies whose boundaries are ill-defined. In toto, a palimpsest voice pegged to the definition of Jewish identity. Modiano inscribes his reflexion about literature and Jewish identity in a confrontation with the discourses contemporary to his writing. Thus can be spelled out a conflict with fathers which gets resolved in the phantasm of discovering, at the heart of all that has already been said, the possibility of renewing novelistic aesthetics as well as grasping what constitutes Jewish identity after the war.