A Study Of Children's Images In Le Clézio's Works

Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio,one of the most significant writers in the latter half of the 20~thh century in France,won the Nobel Literature prize in 2008.He was born in France during the Second World War and with Mauritian family root,and the author’s complicated history and turbulent childhood became a source of inspiration.Judging from the author’s works in various periods,It is found that traces of his re-writing of his childhood memories was recorded.On the other hand,Le Clézio had always maintained a great interest in the non-mainstream marginal groups and their cultures.Children,as a relatively marginal group compared with adults,with their unique perspectives and immature characteristics,act as an important role in revealing the theme of the novel.Le clezio’s childhood set up several important themes throughout his career of creating works.The stories of family migration from France to Mauritius,the brief years of freedom spent in Nigeria at the age of eight,the hunger and fear of war,and the plunge into books to escape reality almost linger in every book of his.Through the re-writing of childhood once again and once again,the writer created a series of children images with common characteristics.These children he created with high intensity of perception,irrational deconstruction spirit and flow generation power,broke through the boundaries of modern society and the action shows the rebellion against the western mainstream civilization consciousnessWith the different stages of the writer’s work creation,the rebellion of children’s images also takes on different tendencies.In his early creation,represented by Mondo et autres histoires,children got rid of shackles of language,sensory and species,and tried to communicate with nature freely,acquired the true feelings of things in the natural world,so as to achieve the realm of the unity of natural objects and I,and realized the elimination of anthropocentrism;In the late 20th century,the writer began to shape the complex children identity,represented by Estelle and Lyra minority children,has the original mixed identity,and accept the benefit of the influence of the multi-cultural constantly at the same time in the process of growing,so as to construct a heterogeneous flow of multiple identities,expressed his criticism of the west-centred theory and nationalism;After entering the 21st century,the realism of the works is further improved,and the children’s active consciousness of escaping is weakened.Instead,it brings the ideal world into the realistic vision via imagination and fiction,and completes the spiritual growth with the power of the ideal by the drive of the historical flood.By setting the contrast space between adults and children,the irony and confrontation of material civilization in adult society are highlighted.In conclusion,under the writing of Le Clezio,the marginalization of children is given into full play and is given the power that beyond the adults.They are no longer the character being protected in the traditional sense,while they are directly threw into the cruelty off the adult world.To feel the rough reality through the instinct of children breaks through binary centre order in the world of adults,which brings the illumination of opening and construction.