The novel Beyond Living places the protagonists daily behavior in three main spaces: Yuwei Town, University and Mentou Village, which together present the intellectuals survival predicament and spiritual variation. Yuwei Town, by the narration of death to highlight the finiteness of living, has become the key space to lead the whole article; The university is the main expression space of the novel, which shows the allround infiltration of the secularization existence to the intellectuals daily life and the spiritual world in many aspects. Mentou Village is the meaning space of the spirit of the novel. The three spaces interweave with each other in the novel, and the true restoration of intellectuals living state at the same time deepens the meaning of the text.