The Archetypes In The Occupied Trilogy Of Patrick Modiano

Patrick Modiano was awarded the Nobel prize for Literature 2014, who was also one of the most representative writers in the contemporary French literature. The Occupied Trilogy was constituted by La Place de l’étoile(1967), La Ronde de nuit(1969) and Les Boulevards de ceinture(1972), in which all the three novels described a horrible life in Paris during the German occupation and established the main tone with depressed and heavy stress on the characters of his later works.. Until the eighty’s of last century, the study of Modiano in China has begun, and winning his 2014 Nobel prize for Literature has brought the research to a new climax. Looking through the studies of Patrick Modiano, most of which are limited in a limited range and concentrated on the theme of seeking, the image of the Beach Man and the background of World War II to analysis the modernity and the post-modernity.Therefore, the attempt to find the archetypes in the Occupied Trilogy with the Myth-Archetype of Northrop Fryer is the first practice that has never been done during the research over the past decades. This essay aims to analysis the regular pattern which matches the post-modernism through the way of finding three important archetypes of Patrick Modiano’ works: the space archetype, the character archetype and the narration archetype. The main contents conclude four chapters: Chapter1 introduces the theory Myth-Archetype of Northrop Fryer from three aspects, the archetype theory, the circulation modes and the organic whole theory. Chapter 2 focuses on the space archetype of Paris and the displacement. Chapter3 is to research the archetype of the Beach Man archetype in his most works. Chapeter4 starts from the narration structures to match the Modiano’s writing to the sixth phase of satire proposed by Fryer, and outlines the “十” model structured by the two axes of space and time.This essay draws a point that the reason why Modiano’s creation present a style with consistency is the displacement of the three archetypes. At the meantime, the deep meanings of the three archetypes reflect Modiano’s profound and post-modernism thought of the root-seeking and the extravagation in the modern society.