A Study On The Spatial Narration Of Modiano's Novels

The award words from Nobel Committee to Modiano were "for the art of memory with which he has evoked the most ungraspable human destinies and uncovered the life-world of the occupation".Modiano is not only a master of memory,but also master of space.His works set Paris as the central spot,which have depicted many real-existed streets and cafes and so on.Each of his novels contains a large amount of space description with numerous alternating scenes as transitions.Spacial dimension cannot be ignored in his works.Based on the Chinese versions of Modiano's novels,the present paper intends to analyze the uniqueness and significance of his works from the perspective of spatial narration and the "Spatiality" in his novels.This dissertation consists of five parts,including introduction,main body part of three chapters and conclusion.The introduction section is mainly about the summary of the research and spatial narration theory.The first chapter mainly discusses the spatial forms in Modiano's novels,and explores the space construction from physical space,social space and psychological space,combined with Frank,Lefebvre,Edward Suja's points of view and others'.The second chapter mainly discusses the spatial narrative techniques of Modiano from the perspectives of unfamiliar narration and time-space narration,Modiano's works are not in accordance with the traditional time-narrative mode,his choices about space and narrative perspective are flexible.Simultaneously,he is good at employing the overlapping and superposition of time and space to present“Spatiality" in his works.The third chapter mainly discusses the spatial narrative function of Modiano's novels,that is,the role and ability of space in the narration.This chapter mainly centers the analysis on physical space,developing from space and narrative process,space and people,space and narrative implication.The conclusion reaffirms the spatial characteristic of Mordiano's works,and determines the literary value and significance of the narrative practice of Modiano with some further thoughts provoked in the study.