A Study On The Space Of Youth Coffee House

Youth Coffee House is quite representative in Patrick Modiano 's novels.This novel describes a group of young people loitering on the streets of Paris sadly.There are many cafes,bars,streets,plazas,and other places of space in the text.The characters' walking paths in Paris formed tangled spacial paths.The text shows an amazing story of Paris in the 1960 s by transformations of the spacial places and the connections of ingenious spacial paths.Space in the Youth Coffee House bears an insignificant function in the fields of narration,plot,structure,characterization and language style.Public and private spaces of different attributes in Paris also increased unique charms to this novel.The writer analysis the spaces in Youth Coffee House text by four parts,from the angles of spacial narrative and poetic theory.The first part is the introduction part.The paper introduces Modiano's profile creations of life,and the research status of his works at home and abroad.The distinctive characteristics of Youth Coffee House is the rich spacial elements,but the interpretations were relatively insufficient from the spacial perspective.The writer is proposed to view the text from a perspective of space.The second part analysis the spacial narrative function of Youth Coffee House,including four points.First of all,there were four people like Lou ji,a college student and other people in the text.They met in Kong Dai coffee house and then left,forming an "encounter-leave" plot pattern.Under the call of Kong Dai coffee house,they realized the limitations of spaces to a person,then fled,trying to find another kind of lofty life,so that it formed an "escape-looking for type" theme model.Second,images of "bridge" and "door","window" and "horizon" appeared several times in the novel,forming the symbolic images of "hopeless-hope type",implying that the different circumstances of life.The "bridge" and "door" metaphor helpless and despair in the life,"window" and "horizon" are the symbols of the slim hopes in the bleak life.Again,with the method of four narrators tell the story,forming the narrative structure of "orange-disc type",from which the author outlined of the fixed points of the map,the furious detective path of bao ling,showing Lou ji's life path and Roland's recall process.Lou ji's short life also reflected their lives.Finally,using a particular spacial place to show the characters,such as Churro's apartments were empty and suppress,meaning the characters are indifferent and boring.The third part analyzes the spacial forms of Paris combining the theories of cultural poetic,The novel describes two types of the Paris urban space : the public spaces and private spaces.Public spaces are including internal spaces represented by coffee houses,bars and outer spaces represented by streets,squares.The openness,strangeness,and mixture properties in internal spaces bring the convenience of communications,to some extent,also limit thefreedoms of people.Streets and plazas in outer space in the Youth Coffee House bare the function of narrative,they were important parts of Paris,presenting the independent aesthetic value.Private spaces in apartments and hotels were the main existence forms,The empty private space is cold and lack of warmth,Lou ji and others felt no sense of the warmth of home.The spacial limitation prompted them to look for themselves,showing the metropolis people have converted to the plight of the spirit.The fourth part analyzes the situations of the characters in Youth Coffee House,they were marginalized and homeless.Being at the edge of the center in Paris,to make them form a spacial experience.They were full of anxiety and had no home to lived,this leads to their lack of care and love,they had to wander in Paris to find themselves for a lifetime.Modiano's complex of Paris was attached to Youth Coffee House,it is also the soul of his other works.