Patrick Modiano’s novels center on human beings’ living predicaments and destinies in the shadow of World War II, and interpret such existential propositions as memory, identity and root-seeking, expressing his deep concern toward individual feelings of life and popular pursuit of spirit. Modiano creates a poetic and symbolic narrative space, in which objective images, fictional characters and cultural codes are endowed with ethical colors and poetic features, thus achieving his analyses of and reflections on multi-faceted life images of human beings. The multi-dimensional poetic narration and artistic imagination become an effective way to question history.